1.   Concentrate instead on getting everything ready for the big day.

2.   I spent three frantic days getting everything ready for Christmas.

3.   I spent three frantic days trying to get everything ready.

4.   In the last hectic weeks before the show started we were practically living in the theatre to get it ready on time.

5.   It took a long time to get everything ready.

6.   It was a mad scramble trying to get things ready in time.

7.   She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.

8.   The farmers are fattening up their cattle and getting them ready for Market.

9.   The staff spent three frantic days trying to get everything ready.

10.   Jenny had been bumbling around the kitchen for hours, trying to get dinner ready.