Sentence examples for lies ready for from inspiring English sources

It seems to us, her grown-up children and her pretty grown-up grandchildren, that she is always either packing or unpacking the little blue suitcase that lies ready for action on the sofa in her bedroom.

Obsessed with her mother's corpse which lies, ready for burial, wrapped in white bandages on her bed, she at one point leans her face against her mother's, stroking her hair until it comes out in her hand.

Surrounded by trees and geometrically designed wooden statues, dried branches lay ready for ignition on the bloodstained altar.

Grigorescu stopped again, climbed up a ladder out of the pit, cleaned the spade of the earth clinging to it with a hoe lying ready for that purpose, wiped his sweaty forehead with a handkerchief, and then came towards them; with a slow, broad movement of his arm, he indicated the entire landscape.

"We would scarce choose to be in the gallery, when one of the women bending over them should recognize a husband, a son, or a brother in the still, lifeless lines of bodies, that lie ready for the gaping trenches".

At the booth for Base Connect, which is double-sized -- triple-sized, if you include the adjacent one for its sister company, Legacy List Marketing, Inc. -- a sea of buttons lie ready for the taking, some for aspiring Congressional candidates, some reading "HARDENED CONSERVATIVE," some commemorating the conference itself.

Again, a pen lies ready.

In the last year of his life, Caesar developed personal control of the coinage to a point at which it lay ready to hand for Augustus to use later as a fully imperial instrument.

The interrogator only had to snap his fingers twice for Abu Zabaydah to lie down, ready for water-boarding, the report says.

Perhaps the most interesting, if hardly the most cheering, part of Mr Lankov's lucid book lies in "being ready for what we wish for".

The graceful fingers of Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538) also lie suggestively placed, ready for fun.