Example sentences of "ready [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he was all poshed up in his best uniform , ready to go off on a 48-hour pass , he was not best pleased at this turn of events . |
| 2 | Maybe it 's not activated — by which I mean ready to go off when a vessel passes over it — until the ticking stops . |
| 3 | She could not believe that Pat was ready to go off now , at this thrilling moment when fabulous happenings seemed imminent . |
| 4 | So these are now ready to go off to the specialists , okay . |
| 5 | In the photograph they are getting ready to go off to camp on their bikes ( velos ) . |
| 6 | Her cheeks were pink with excitement , her eyes shiny and bright , as though she was getting ready to go off on some adventure . |
| 7 | But she 's ready to go off really , she probably would have done if Robert had n't tipped the milk everywhere ! |
| 8 | PREMIER John Major flew home from his Spanish holiday yesterday — ready to kill off the last lingering hopes of early economic recovery . |
| 9 | Someone blows a whistle , and this train starts rumbling , like it 's getting ready to drive off . |
| 10 | Before long the sweater was finished and the various parts stitched together with her usual professional finish , ready to post off to Penry next day to make certain he had a keepsake to remind him of his castaway . |
| 11 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 12 | Well , I do n't think I was really ready to come off before . |
| 13 | Wallace took a knock and looked like he was ready to come off after about 75 mins . |
| 14 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 15 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 16 | WIMBLEDON owner Sam Hammam last night warned that he is ready to sell off ALL the club 's top players . |
| 17 | Then get the whole lot into their coats ready to march off to school , which was only round the corner . |
| 18 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 19 | The feeling is mutual , but is he ready to run off to California with her ? |
| 20 | The feeling is mutual , but is he ready to run off to California with her ? |
| 21 | Hurricanes of 213 , 229 and 238 Squadron aboard H.M.S. ‘ Furious ’ on 21 May 1941 ready to fly off to the Middle East via Malta on Operation ‘ Splice ’ . |
| 22 | With a muffled sound she spun round clinging on to her shoulder bag and ready to fight off an attacker . |
| 23 | In a late spring , the catch crop may not be ready to graze off in time to prepare a good tilth for the ensuing main crop . |
| 24 | If you do run into lift , you must assess the situation on each turn , being ready to break off for a normal base leg and approach . |
| 25 | And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then . |
| 26 | When you got in there at seven thirty , Chris was n't there and the books were n't there and people were waiting around ready to get off . |
| 27 | Kitchens Of Distinction are in the potentially painful process of arriving : they 're on a collision course with 1991 , and , despite all the fashion points stacked against them , the no-great-rush policy seems ready to pay off . |
| 28 | The first young lady ready to pay off the mortgages on his land can be Lady Lark tomorrow . |
| 29 | Pop this in a 2U flight case with an effects unit , and you 're ready to take off in some considerable style … |
| 30 | He had considered destroying the Chelonians completely , but the ship was now ready to take off and he did n't want to waste time . |