adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
good/glad tidings (= good news )
happy/glad/ready etc to oblige
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If you need a ride home, I’d be happy to oblige.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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I never went there to stay, but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills.
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Paul was always glad to oblige by hugging back, but not until you asked him.
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As will all aspects of the Development Programme we are always glad to receive suggestions on appropriate staff development activities.
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Nor are the natives always glad to see him.
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Regulations said that instructors must go up periodically, but he was always glad when they touched down.
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I am always glad to see you both, Sherlock.
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I did listen to him proposing a vote of thanks occasionally, and I was always glad when he sat down.
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She loved to ramble, too, and we were always glad when she could join with us.
how
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You don't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas.
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As the professor, he was the last one down the stairs. How glad to escape!
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Thomas, how glad she was to have him here.
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You were slobbering all over me, telling me how glad you were to be rid of him.
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No doubt that showed how glad she was to be leaving.
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His greeting calls showed how glad he was to see me.
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Oh, how glad I am that I didn't die.
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And how glad he would be when she told him.
just
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She was just glad that Alain was out.
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Maybe they are just glad to be home in front of a friendly crowd at the end of a tough season.
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I was just glad he took money and not possessions, because possessions can't be replaced.
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For now, though, the Bears are just glad to be in the NCAAs.
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There was an old log and she sat down wearily, just glad of the quietness and the peace of her surroundings.
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I was just glad the abortion was over with.
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I am just glad I wasn't Anne Boleyn, or some other lady who took his fancy.
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I was just glad to be out of the bush and to be earning a bit more money.
really
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I've been really glad about that.
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I am really glad of it.
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I was really glad to be going out with Mary instead of Mum.
so
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When I wrote to her after her departure she replied: I was so glad to get your letter.
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Well - goodbye, my dear, he was about to say, so glad I found you.
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Dear Laurel, I am so glad you are better.
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We're so glad you could make it.
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That night I lie in my own bed, so glad to be off that train.
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I am so glad to see you!
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I am so glad she feels this way.
too
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They're too glad to see me to worry about authenticity.
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She was only too glad to have even this talk bouncing against walls that had become a tomb.
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All the same, most people would have been all too glad to get off the sinking ship.
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Izzie was all too glad to break free of the circle and run and fetch her pipe.
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Benjamin seems all too glad to drive the nifty Alfa Romeo his parents gave him as a graduation gift.
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My council colleagues in Cheltenham will be only too glad to help me with it as well.
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I was only too glad to help.
very
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I certainly had to take a couple of unofficial breaks and we were very glad when we stopped for food and drink.
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He was very glad to see me, and we journeyed on.
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I am so very glad to hear that my darlings are all making such splendid improvement.
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Agnes says that she would be very glad to see him again.
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They were very glad to borrow the few Penguin books we brought along with us, even though they are not particularly light reading.
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In a family meeting, my little brother was there, and I was very glad to see him.
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Indeed, they were no doubt very glad to have the reassurance of each other's presence for travelling into an unknown future.
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He always got up immediately and seemed very glad to be fighting in the correct manner.
■ NOUN
rag
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Put on the glad rags and go out and party, after that?
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She changed out of her glad rags , tugged on old jeans and a sweatshirt and drove out to his house.
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Her sister-in-law's glad rags were not very glad.
tidings
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Dissension between the Peshawar politicians and the resistance commanders brings glad tidings to Kabul.
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Then I too broke into glad tidings and joy to the world with the crowds of believers around me.
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The next day a large medal sale continues the glad tidings with only about 8% unsold.
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I come as the bearer of glad tidings .
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He was one of thousands who headed south as soon as they heard the glad tidings on Monday morning.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be glad/delighted/pleased etc to see the back of sb/sth
be glad/pleased etc to see the back of sb/sth
be only too glad/pleased to do sth
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Cliff is only too pleased to prepare a celebratory meal for any special occasion.
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I was only too glad to help.
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If none is required, they will be only too pleased to tell you.
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She was only too glad to have even this talk bouncing against walls that had become a tomb.
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The governments were only too pleased to oblige.
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The Library would be only too pleased to explore further suggestions along similar lines. 13.4.
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They know the way that the wind is blowing, and would be only too pleased to be redeployed into another trade.
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We would be only too pleased to provide information on the Association.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"The meal was excellent." "I'm glad you liked it."
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It was a glad day for everyone.
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She was glad that the birthday party was a success.
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Viv was glad to learn they'd reached home safely.
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We were all glad when it was time to go home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he was sure glad of it.
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But as Michele had prophesied, it was already getting cooler, and Luce was glad of her light coat.
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I was glad it was Judy not me backing the truck in.
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I was glad now to have company.
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I was glad when the train stopped, because the wind did not feel as vicious then.
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It made her glad she was disobeying them; gladder still that she and Rob were lovers.
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Maggie was glad to go to her room.