Example sentences of "be glad [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And Miss Miggs would be glad for it to go because boys have been climbing over her garden wall trying to get it , ’ finished Christine . |
| 2 | When opened , relates David Gieve in his bicentenary history of the famous tailors , it disclosed a small life insurance policy and a charming letter in which he said he wished the proceeds of the policy to be applied to settling his final account , and if there was a surplus he would be glad for Gieves to keep it as a modest token of his gratitude for a lifetime 's service . |
| 3 | Maybe we should all be glad for what we 've got ( if we have got it : pray to God he does n't stay in Hollywood ) , glad for those marvellous moments , for the sheer pleasure of his movies . |
| 4 | On a day when good feelings were pretty scarce , it did n't seem wrong to spare just one moment to be glad for her . |
| 5 | She 's fond of me , she 'll be glad for me . ’ |
| 6 | Ruth would not be glad for Emma . |
| 7 | ‘ He becomes old , and would be glad for the chance to see the hills around Merkadale again before he dies . ’ |
| 8 | And it 's my opinion we both ought to be glad for that . ’ |
| 9 | Judging from what your great-aunt used to say about you , I am sure you are as good as Jenny , and I would be glad for you to take out any of the animals . |
| 10 | ‘ One can only be glad for their sakes . |
| 11 | They 'll just be glad for some comfort . |
| 12 | Blessed are you when you suffer insults and persecution and cowardliness of every kind from my face exult and be glad for you have a rich reward in heaven in the same way as they persecuted the prophets who bore you . |
| 13 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 14 | He was to add that the French should also be glad to be allied to the Scots , ‘ for from Scotland we may repulse the English , and from thence enter easily into their country , which gives no great odds against them , and thus enables us to curb and check them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd be glad to . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd be glad to . ’ |
| 17 | Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine . |
| 18 | You would think she would be glad to be interrupted . ’ |
| 19 | At this point a woman may be glad to be released , temporarily , from the struggle with her individual problems , and to be renewed by the light that her sisters generate . |
| 20 | ‘ Anything I can do , I 'll be glad to , ’ he said soothingly . |
| 21 | ‘ The journey has been exhausting and I will be glad to be home . ’ |
| 22 | To change the subject she said , ‘ I 'm sure Stella will be glad to be home again . ’ |
| 23 | But he 's got to strip the bonnet so Dave said well I 'll get my lad to strip the bonnet this afternoon and er you know , few hundred quid for the day we 'll be glad to be able to finish off doing them and He 's got too many |
| 24 | You know , so erm he 'll be glad to be home I think . |
| 25 | I should be glad of another death |
| 26 | Sergeant Crane and I would be glad of tea . |
| 27 | Besides , Ma would be glad of the clean clothes . |
| 28 | This does not mean that Paisley would not be glad of the support ( such as he had in his campaign to ‘ Save Ulster From Sodomy ’ ) of individual Catholics , but he would not work with Catholic organizations or officials of the Catholic Church because that might dilute his separatist witness . |
| 29 | I 'd be glad of it . |
| 30 | Lachlan would be glad of her understanding . |