Example sentences of "was so keen " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York . |
| 2 | She was so keen to get a letter to her daughter off tonight . ’ |
| 3 | It was this western part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler was so keen to get his hands on ; not so much for the Pilsener lagers , but for the Skoda machine plants and the iron and coal resources of Western Bohemia . |
| 4 | Sam wondered what Mr Harker would say if he knew that one of his relatives was so keen to disrupt the cotton industry . |
| 5 | I do n't reckon she was so keen on being related to Miss Harker , though the others might 've turned out better . ’ |
| 6 | However , it was easy to see why Marr was so keen on ‘ Big Mouth Strikes Again ’ . |
| 7 | That would have eased the tension but , as it was , I was so keen to justify myself that I felt compelled to confront him . |
| 8 | I had finally worked out why Dennis was so keen on me . |
| 9 | This was the normal relaxation of a king 's leisure : Henry I of Germany was so keen a huntsman that he ‘ would take forty or more wild beasts in a day ’ ; the Norman kings turned a substantial proportion of their kingdom into game preserves ; hunting was the natural sport of a militant aristocracy , venting on animals the energy and spleen left over from fighting their own kind . |
| 10 | And perhaps this also explains why he was so keen to play the leading part as villainous Michael Murray in GBH . |
| 11 | But I was told that since I was so keen to have these things I had better think about how we would use them when the time came . |
| 12 | We travelled the length and breadth of the island , stopping to paint as often as we could persuade him to do so … which was n't always easy , as he was so keen that we should see everything . |
| 13 | ‘ I was so keen to work for the Labour Party , ’ he says . |
| 14 | I do n't tell him why I was so keen to accept a commission which involved six weeks in Africa , from a fading and somewhat ridiculous Hollywood producer . |
| 15 | Why the American woman was so keen to become a link in the Nazi spy network he did n't know or care . |
| 16 | Colin , a born darts player , was so keen to play for the ‘ Whads ’ that he paid his own signing-on fee ( £56 ) , and has also agreed to wash the team strip every week . |
| 17 | Erm why , why do you think your mother was so keen on the Co-op ? |
| 18 | ‘ I was so keen to meet her again I did n't challenge this at all . |
| 19 | ‘ I keep asking myself what it could have been that she was so keen to tell me on the phone . |
| 20 | Ever wondered why the Catholic Church was so keen to convert the natives of South America ? |
| 21 | Er , but there again I think it was because the person doing this , was so keen to see the right result , that he read into into |