Example sentences of "in readiness for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned . |
| 2 | I reasoned the pilot must be using descent speed to keep the rotor spinning in readiness for his ‘ landing ’ . |
| 3 | Lewis , on holiday in Jamaica , will return to training next month in readiness for his first defence , possibly against Alex Stewart . |
| 4 | ‘ But I understood — that is to say the queen my mother-in-law understood — that the king moved here from Ely Palace in readiness for his coronation . |
| 5 | Jon , 35 , was playing detective again at a London club in readiness for his return to The Bill as Mike Dashwood . |
| 6 | ‘ In the meantime , Don Antonio instructed his bankers to maintain the houses in readiness for his return . |
| 7 | The family had not paid much attention to the terms of the eccentric patriarch 's last wishes , as the stipulation that all his possessions should be held in readiness for his return merely put the houses and their produce at the usual disposal of his family , while removing the problem of his personal presence and authority . |