Example sentences of "ready [to-vb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Honest to God , ’ Violet said , begging , pleading , ready to go down on her knees she saw , a glint ; it quaked her bowels , the steel of the cut-throat razor . |
| 2 | Why was she making excuses anyway ? she scoffed , as a flick of a glance to the small and feminine watch on her wrist showed she should leave her room to be ready to go down for when the taxi arrived . |
| 3 | Quite how he would do that she was undecided when later she ran her bath prior to getting ready to go down to dinner . |
| 4 | And he 'd got round the corner , ready to go down to the rest of the stairs which went down , and then at the bottom turned round the corner again . |
| 5 | Civil war probably halted the work , with the result that 20th century tourists can still stumble on the stone axes where they were lain , and can study the progress of carving from the first outlines to the almost completed megalith ready to slide down from this rocky womb . |
| 6 | PETER Swales announced today that he was ready to stand down as chairman of trouble-torn Manchester City . |
| 7 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 8 | Social workers and their managers are clearly ready to knuckle down to the task of making the policy work for users . |
| 9 | THE French Government looked ready to back down to angry farmers last night and torpedo a £200 billion boost to world trade . |
| 10 | Kathleen had always known , deep down , that one day she would meet someone she loved more than her career and would be ready to settle down with him to raise a family . |
| 11 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 12 | ‘ Seriousness ’ , a key word in his vocabulary , and perhaps the most important trait of his character , is ever ready to break down into self-mockery , ever willing to enjoy the jeux d'esprit with which his work and art are replete . |
| 13 | He sat back and folded his arms , giving me the impression that he was now ready to get down to some serious talking . |
| 14 | ‘ The highlanders , ’ testified one Jacobite present , ‘ though faint with hunger and ready to drop down with fatigue and want of sleep , seemed to forget all their hardships at the approach of the enemy . |
| 15 | The base , a tent camp which is operated by Adventure Network International , is in the process of being run down ready to close down for the Antarctic winter . |
| 16 | The signal for the collapse of the regime was Mr Najibullah 's announcement last month that he was ready to step down in favour of a United Nations-appointed interim committee . |
| 17 | And I 've been the leader of of that party for the last four and half years , I am ready to step down from that , and ready to take up this challenge , and I believe that those experiences , and what I 've done there , will stand me in good stead . |