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Example sentences for "being willing"

  • At last, in his old age, being willing to settle the government, he asked his council which of his family they desired to have for their king after his decease.

  • You commanded your nobility to give their advice, how to dispose of your daughter and kingdom, as being willing to hold the government no longer on account of your great age.

  • And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.

  • For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.

  • For we trust we have a good conscience, being willing to behave ourselves well in all things.

  • And here, being willing to know the worst, I told him, "I hope now there is nothing remaining between you and I of future dispute.

  • He is high and strange still, but did ask me how my wife did, and at parting remembered him to his cozen, which I thought was pretty well, being willing to flatter myself that in time he will be well again.

  • So I sent for a barrel of oysters, and they dined, and we were very merry, I being willing to be so upon this news.

  • It was very late when he came back, being willing to stay till his father was a-bed, and then his mother's women opening the door very softly, let him in without any manner of noise.

  • So, being willing to make them believe the garden was his, he said the same of the pavilion.

  • How touchingly it would tell of her great love for them, in being willing to lay down her life to save theirs!

  • But, instead of thanking him for coming to teach them, and of being willing to do what he wanted them to do, they found fault with his teaching, and would not mind what he said.

  • A very useful practice is to talk to ourselves so quietly and earnestly as to convince our brains of the true helpfulness of being willing and of the impediment of our unwillingness.

  • The answer is that if you know that your unwillingness to lose the train is preventing you from catching it, you certainly will see the efficacy of being willing, and you will do all in your power toward yielding to common sense.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being able; being always; being asked; being called; being captured; being destitute; being discovered; being driven; being formed; being interpreted; being killed; being like; being miserable; being moved; being only; being ordained; being persuaded; being placed; being possessed; being present; being reconciled; being taught; being useful; being vanquished; being wounded; being written