May not seeing a word always be a getting ready to say it, even if no actual movement of the vocal organs occurs?
Or, still better, may it not be that perceiving an object amounts to getting ready to do something with it?
May not seeing an orange consist in getting ready to take it, peel it, and eat it?
May not perceiving our friend amount to the same thing as getting ready to behave in a friendly manner, and perceiving our enemy amount to the same thing as getting on our guard against him?
We had a more important thing to attend to: we all flew home, and lost not a moment in getting ready to lead a better life.
It contains but one house now, and this one, in a state of ruin, is getting ready to follow the former five into the river.
Been married three times; buried two husbands, divorced from the third, and I hear she is getting ready to marry an old fellow out in Colorado somewhere.
So he must have known Connel was counting down, getting ready to push the plunger home.
It is difficult to believe El Viejo is getting ready to erupt.
While I amgetting ready to say what I really think about Browning, for instance, he is disposed of in a sentence.
He commonly spends his seventy years, if so many are given him, in getting ready to enjoy himself.
Now one half the world are employed in getting ready to kill the other half, some of them by marching about in uniform, and the others by hard work to earn money to pay taxes to buy uniforms and guns.
One of those monster guns must be getting readyto disgorge itself.
Which means that they've seen us, that they've noted our French uniforms through powerful glasses, and that they're getting ready to swoop.
Fortunately, we had a good supply of the concentrated beef of Martinez's preparation, and were not long in getting ready an excellent breakfast for them.
All the way up we worked, getting ready for as many sick as could be taken on her.
They took in several of them, and, as they were strolling along the boardwalk, getting ready to come home, Jerry nudged Ned.
She's getting ready to do big things in her next two years, you see, big things for the G.
I know that, my men; there's no time to be lost in getting ready though," said Murray.
Here and there a few might be seen loosing their shoe-ties, or getting ready to cast off their flushing coats; but no other sign was observable that an awful struggle for life and death was about to commence.
On this Mr Cherry ordered the sails to be lowered, and the oars being got out, away they dashed towards the junk, getting ready to fire as they approached.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "getting ready" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
