Sentence examples for were eager to put from inspiring English sources

They were eager to put their money into government bonds.

But both sides said yesterday that they were eager to put the past behind them.

Not all of his Democratic friends were comfortable voting for a black man, he told me, but they were eager to put the Bush years behind them.

But Romney said that Salt Lake City residents had been shamed by the scandal and were eager to put it behind them.

Many of the people assembled here were eager to put last year's collapse of world trade talks in Seattle behind them.

Moreover, the independent studios — including those of De Mille, Griffith, and Samuel Goldwyn — were eager to put a continent between themselves and Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company.

But I was eager to put it to the test.

But he is eager to put such battles behind him.

The students are eager to put their skills to the real test.

Chrysler's new leaders are eager to put the bailout behind them.

But Akihito is eager to put a more mortal face on the often-distant imperial family.