Sentence examples for waiting ready from inspiring English sources

But we had no defined "leadership" that could speak on our behalf to the military, and we had no government in waiting ready to take power.

There, young waitresses in hairnets and starched scalloped aprons stood waiting, ready to circulate with cut-glass dishes of relish or warm Parker House rolls extracted from heated breadboxes slung over their shoulders.

Other financial sectors are "waiting ready to pick up the business from the wreckage we will leave if we are stupid enough to discard a banking model which has served us well," she added, warning that politicians risk sending British banking to the same fate as British shipbuilding.

All of them were waiting, ready to pray.

He heard her screams, and when I came out of the front door, he was already there, waiting, ready to carry her to the hospital with me.

Friend Biologist Rupert Sheldrake has been featured in a documentary and written extensively on how, for instance, many dogs know the moment when their owner has left the office and the dog is waiting, ready to greet them at the front door when they return, often as much as an hour later.

But Martin and Durand, hoping the conditions would improve once they were in the air, and eager to escape the monotony of another day of waiting, readied themselves for flight.

I used to stand outside, arms spread, just waiting, readying myself for an alien abduction.

Cameras waited, ready and aimed.

The tips of her skis looked like weird talons of brilliant red and gold in the powder snow as she waited, ready to swoop".

The news from Utah was flashed all over the country by telegraph and wireless, while the delivery vans of newspapers waited ready to speed away with special editions.