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Example sentences for "stand ready"

  • I stand ready through my own personal efforts, and through the public influence of the office that I hold, to help these local agencies to get the means necessary to assume this burden.

  • Wherever nations are willing to help themselves, we stand ready to help them build new bulwarks of freedom.

  • But if you are so sure your improvements are valuable, why go to the expense of duplicating our selling and manufacturing equipment when we stand ready to make a fair trade?

  • With that accomplished, I stand ready to make delivery; but with it you must also accept its obligations.

  • Men call me honest and virtuous, and I stand ready to dare all perils the castle may hold.

  • It is that the queen has proved false to her lord and husband, and this I stand ready to prove with my body," said Meliagrance.

  • If I have done as you say I stand ready to make what amends are in my power.

  • For my own part, I stand ready to defend my king, my country, and my faith.

  • If such counsel be acceptable to my lord the king, I stand ready to depart upon an embassy to the Moslem camp.

  • On the following morning, a larger force was ordered out to skirmish, and such of the soldiery as were unarmed were commanded to stand ready to seize the horses and strip off the armor of the killed and wounded.

  • On the following morning a larger force was ordered out to skirmish, and such of the soldiery as were unarmed were commanded to stand ready to seize the horses and strip off the armor of the killed and wounded.

  • I stand ready to meet difficulties and answer questions.

  • The covenant says, 'we stand ready to do His will.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    appears from; brother said; fearing lest; hath left; her crew; our left; shall present; stand against; stand alone; stand before; stand beside; stand close; stand erect; stand here; stand still; stand them; stand thou; stand until; standing armies; standing committees; standing erect; standing there; standing timber; stands alone; wages paid; wish you would tell