Mr. Gore warmed right up, turned his attention to his guest and chatted about raising cattle until someone announced, "Sir, ready when you are".
"With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, Sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to".
It is the longest pleasure pier in the world – so long, in fact, that it even has its own train, the Sir John Betjeman, ready to whisk you off to its furthest point, 1.3 miles out over the waltzing waves.
In a letter to the head of the Maryland Militia and military commander for Baltimore, Major General Samuel Smith, he wrote, "We, sir, are ready at Fort McHenry to defend Baltimore against invading by the enemy.
So if you're ready, Sir Ramsey, I'm going to start the interview now".
One former colleague thinks Sir Fred was ready to leave RBS and needed a new lease of life.
But, if Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to hand over his latest collection of bright young things to Mourinho or anyone else, heis fooling us all.
When I'm really on form I can beat anybody in the world in the sprint and anybody in the world in the keirin" Sir Chris Hoy How ready are they?
In the next place Havelock – united with Neill – is unassailable at Cawnpore, with the united forces, about 2,000 men – and Sir James Outram was ready to join him with 2,000 more.
The most striking image of Inter's visit to Old Trafford on Wednesday was Mourinho swaggering around the stadium, looking and sounding like a man auditioning for the role when the aging Sir Alex is ready to retire.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is ready to join the £3m chase for Birmingham's highly rated teenage goalkeeper Jack Butland.
