Example sentences of "[prep] happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved her glass , picked up the brochure and leafed through it , studying pictures of happy couples . |
| 2 | Some sang a mocking version of Happy Birthday . |
| 3 | Then he smiled , a charming smile of happy anticipation . |
| 4 | The next half-hour or so passed quietly but for the sound of happy munching and quaffing . |
| 5 | The bar was still full of happy drinkers , but none saw what Tom saw as he opened the door into Witchball Street . |
| 6 | It is an approach march of over 30 miles across some terrible moors , and the objective for my little band of happy warriors is two ( large ) bottles of beer ! |
| 7 | The atmosphere of the Club was one of happy , relaxed holidaymakers and friendly staff who immediately made us feel completely at home . |
| 8 | Yes , thus the Muses sing of happy swains , |
| 9 | Mrs Chamoun guides him around the Emir Bashir 's palace at Beit Eddine ; he is clearly taken in by the mythical Lebanon of happy agrarian masses toiling away under the guidance of a benevolent leader . |
| 10 | Confronted by a vista of happy , smiling snot-encrusted faces , I took a deep breath , stuck my face under water and removed the hangovers . |
| 11 | The tenor of his advice was that every step must be given its full measure of beauty and significance ; he wanted John to guard against falling back on clichés between moments of happy invention . |
| 12 | Memories of happy days on the hills never fade but can not be shared with others through the medium of the written word as effectively as colourful pictures . |
| 13 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 14 | This pattern must inevitably reflect the fundamental fact that all forms of life involve some kind of family life , however primitive , in which the main burdens of happy survival lay within that family . |
| 15 | Clockwise from top left An early 20th-century papier-maché lion which growls at the tug of a metal ring ; a late 19th-century version of Happy Families ; tin soldiers perpetually fighting the Battle of Waterloo ; a heads-and-bodies-and-tails book in which the metamorphoses are part of a story ; a cottager 's doll from a village antiques shop ; a fish pond in which the lines are baited with a magnet ; a zoetrope , which reveals a series of moving images as the drum revolves ; a tin man c.1910 who raises his hat when you pull his string . |
| 16 | The myth of happy and contented animals down on the farm is now far from the truth . |
| 17 | Harwich , too , is a source of happy memories , a favourite being the policeman who actually smiled . |
| 18 | She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them . |
| 19 | Possessed for once by a spirit of happy hilarity , the Indian crowd unhitched the horses from Mountbatten 's carriage and dragged it through the streets ; British officers were lifted shoulder high and cheered . |
| 20 | The Pleasure Dome is the host for Dave 's blend of up-front dance and indie tunes , where the sounds are likely to include ditties from the likes of Happy Mondays , The Charlatans , World Of Twist , 808 State , A Tribe Called Quest and The KLF , interspersed with a splattering of classic House tunes . |
| 21 | Your full page photograph has no doubt encouraged many young and impressionable fans of Happy Mondays to go out and have children . |
| 22 | There were piles of Happy Shopper economy burgers , and Iqbal Cola ( 33p for two litres ) . |
| 23 | Most such answers imply enjoyment , even ‘ I am interested in it ’ ( which at least suggests the prospect of happy hours of observing , reading , thinking ) ; but ‘ I am curious about it ’ is neutral as far as enjoyment is concerned . |
| 24 | Allan Martin 's analysis of Wales ' gradually improving forward play has a poignancy born of happy memories of the halcyon Seventies . |
| 25 | ROCCO Forte , the boss of Happy Eater to Little Chef motorway restaurant chain , has finally sold his contract catering arm Gardner Merchant . |
| 26 | It was an apparent attempt not to highlight the deep rift between herself and her estranged husband Charles on the one day of the year which is symbolic of happy families . |
| 27 | Bankrupt Kevin Maxwell , who faces £140 million theft and fraud charges , claimed the new version of Happy Families featuring Maxwell lookalikes the Greeds could prejudice his case . |
| 28 | Beginning in what is usually considered the gastronomically adventurous South East , the gamble was backed by a £1m television advertising campaign that featured a barn full of happy animals celebrating their improvement in life expectancy . |
| 29 | John Wilkes 's North Briton has its own brand of excitements , and a complete run of the Gentleman 's Magazine , from its inception in 1731 , will occupy a good deal of shelf room and , probably , a decade or two of happy searching . |
| 30 | It appeared deserted , a trifle sinister even amid the overhanging trees — and , though she had not before registered the fact , it lacked the sound of happy voices which had in times past always greeted her return . |