Sentence examples for was eager at from inspiring English sources

He was eager at that point to give away the memorabilia that he would later be accused of selling for petty cash, illegally.

A dubious density of detailing — "In Paris, Calder had to wait an hour for his luggage, which he had checked through in London" — of the kind inevitable to such multivolume investigations may daunt even the reader who was eager at the start.

After three weeks spent exploring national parks, worshipping in cathedrals made of salt and trekking the stomping ground of Juan Valdez, I was eager at the prospect of being back in a city.

Many mayors said they were eager at the prospect that new gun laws might pass.

We are eager, at least for a while, for a glimpse of those who wake up on the day after the election with nothing to do.

Garcia and Carvalho were impressed with the wide range of high-level USG visits to Brazil over the next month, and were eager at the prospect of increased dialogue with the USG on critical issues.

He has been eager at news conferences to move beyond the polarizing battle over his successful push to revise the term limits law last fall, which enabled him and other officials to seek four more years in office.

The assumption here is that if agile would not provide real improvement, adopters would be eager at first but turn pessimistic after putting it into practice.

It has come to a point where we don't believe there is going to be any methadone programme…We were supposed to start last year in February, and now it's been two years…People were eager at first.

Pharmacists were eager at first to be involved in delivering extra services, as the HHCs were potentially both a method of generating extra revenue and bringing more people into their stores: We do focus on the services, we do a lot of morning after pills.

Julian was eager, but not at all disinterested.