The shoe is now ready to be vamped after the eyelets are put in.

The singular half hour under the trees by the pool, spent, after the first hysteric moments were over, in vague exclaimings and questions […]

We're messing around at work, the three of us, getting ready to go home and rubbishing each other's five best side one track ones of all time …

the doctor's help (help provided by the doctor)