Sentence examples for held ready for from inspiring English sources

In mining camps all along the Rocky Mountains dynamite held ready for retaliation was now set off "by the ton", just for kicks.

Semi-processing parts are often held ready for a wide range of customer-demanded final versions.

From there he went to Montreal, where, in a meeting with General Carleton and more than 1,500 Indians, negotiated similar agreements, and delivered war belts "to be held ready for service".

During the summer, XV Corps was held ready for Operation Hush, an amphibious landing by the 1st Division and a coastal offensive by the rest of XV Corps, which was planned to support an advance from Ypres by the Fifth Army.

The calculation seems to have been that Labour would immediately move to a leadership election in which their favoured candidate would win and save the party from itself, and hold ready for a Lib-Lab coalition in due course.

Out in Hollywood he rides at the head of his private cavalry the California Light Horse Troop which he has equipped and holds ready for any civic or national emergency.

"You can be in a choke-hold ready for your fire-up, your comeback, but if the crowd are no there with you, if they're not chanting your name, it's not worth it.

Each man then gave his horses over to his charioteer in charge to hold them ready for him at the trench.

Paul Pugh said all staff had to abide by civil service rules on unauthorised contact with the media, but added: "What the picture demonstrated, I think, was a well-ordered, well-contained area for holding work ready for consideration and processing".

The patient was in the holding area, ready for surgery, when Sciolaro learned that only a Medtronic pacemaker would be provided.

You should have a helper ready the probe by lubricating it along its length and holding it ready for you to insert it into the anus of the bull.