Example sentences of "[noun pl] ready for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oz scousers ready for big Echo party |
| 2 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 3 | But because the two meeting houses are enveloped in giant tarpaulins ready for overnight fumigation there will be no official welcome . |
| 4 | Co-drivers ready for rapid acceleration |
| 5 | Priests ready for close finish |
| 6 | The return journey was on a very old bus which picked up people , with baskets of vegetables ready for Funchal market , all along its route . |
| 7 | Soaking in a warm bath will open up pores ready for deep cleansing . |
| 8 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |