adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eager to please
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Most children are eager to please .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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Glover was genial, modest, and always eager to improve himself.
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Bosses were not always eager to befriend trainees.
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Inder Lal is always eager to hear Chid's letters.
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Danny himself has two young children, always eager for exciting stories.
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They were always eager to help or run messages and she enjoyed making tea and cakes for them.
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They are always eager to learn more about the world in which they live...
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Cousteau, barely in his twenties, was a happy-go-lucky youngster, always eager and willing and a more than competent seaman.
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And not such a bad parent-\#always with time to spare, always eager to please, often funny.
as
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Either way, it looks like women will be as eager as men to invest in a tux for Christmas.
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People are quick to slap that label on you, and then just as eager to predict your downfall.
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The spirited young woman who had been as eager for life as he was?
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I was as eager to get out of that place as Jasper was.
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At the end of the day the teacher was as eager to leave as the children.
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Figaro seems as eager to bed his fiancee as does the Count Almaviva.
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But she stood up as eager as Joan of Arc before the judges at her infamous trial.
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Litchfield asked, and Sam nodded as he lit his cigarette, trying not to look as eager as he felt.
ever
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Chameleon, ever eager to fit in?
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Walsh, ever eager to stick his finger in some one else's pie, gravitated towards the foreign affairs discussion group.
more
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No one was more eager for life, and none better equipped to live it fully.
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Crowds are larger and more eager to touch a president.
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How much more eager those warriors would have been to contact a foe face to face.
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There are many others who seem even more eager to hold on to the old century.
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Newspapers and magazines are more eager than ever to get the shots that count.
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He is more eager and able to expand our faith than we are to have it done.
most
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He was usually the person most eager to get the guillotine through.
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Even the most eager activists of 1965 soon headed for the hills of Santa Barbara and the communes of Vermont.
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Would-be homeowners and real estate agents are among the most eager to see an end to the crisis.
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It was indeed the down-and-out who seemed most eager to hear the new message.
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Tomato growers are some of the most eager gardeners there are, Bramhall observed.
particularly
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They and their colleagues are particularly eager to generate interest among the young.
so
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Oh, how could she have let herself be so easily tricked, so eager to believe that he had changed?
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Y., so eager to espouse other causes, has thus far been uncharacteristically low key and ineffective.
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Can not afford national advertising, so relies on verbal testimonials to expand business, so eager to please.
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He had never in his life seen two men so eager to do business.
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But why were they so eager to discourage visitors?
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They were so innocent, so vulnerable, so eager to behave decently.
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It was no wonder, on reflection, that Lorimer had been so eager to spend time in Cleo's irreverent company.
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They looked so eager , so willing to be pleased.
too
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Many parents are only too eager to hand their child over to a babysitter and enjoy a well-earned night out.
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I was afraid that if I appeared too eager , it might dawn on the woman she had made a terrible mistake.
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She did not want to appear either too eager or too casual.
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Was she not normal, was she too eager ?
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The managers may have been too eager to oblige.
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There will always be some one only too eager to criticise your progress.
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He'd left the time a bit tight deliberately, not wanting to arrive too early and therefore look too eager .
■ NOUN
anticipation
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With eager anticipation , though her clear golden-brown eyes held a hint of sadness, Luce Weston descended the steps.
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For, as his master opened the kitchen door, there, in eager anticipation , stood Azor.
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As in the latter case, the horse may be in eager anticipation of what is to come!
face
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No new fighters ever seemed to come now, no fresh and eager faces appeared in the Takali mess.
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You should only see their eager faces how they brighten up when the Sisters come.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A crowd of eager fans were waiting outside the hotel.
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a group of eager volunteers
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She hurried home from college, eager to hear Tom's news.
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Simon was an ambitious man, eager for power and prestige.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As in the Horton days, the dancers were eager to work with him.
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But were they eager to learn?
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He was both eager to adopt the right stance and unnerved by the strangeness of it.
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I was eager to figure out how much money Peter, and I, had won.
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Much of the routine work was done by girl students eager to earn a little extra towards their fees.
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People are quick to slap that label on you, and then just as eager to predict your downfall.
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Perhaps the captain of the frigate was a touch too eager .