Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [be] happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for his guardians and his lack of friends , he could have been happy here , he thought as he went round the front of the car to open the door for Madeleine . |
| 2 | He finally finds contentment in living a basic life and repaying Joe what he owes him and he soon realises that he could have been happy staying with Joe in the forge . |
| 3 | In fact he 'd have been happy with a five . |
| 4 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 5 | He would have been happier with a committee , but the owners , of whom several rented rather than owned their boats , were not of the substance from which committees are formed . |
| 6 | Levi would have understood that challenge , just as I think he would have been happy to agree that it is possible to speak without contradiction of the literal imagination . |
| 7 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 8 | In the case of this applicant , he would have been happy to have obtained any place in the service , for he hoped to arrange thereafter for a transfer to the stations which he really desired , Coldingham or Eyemouth , where he had business interests . |
| 9 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 10 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |
| 11 | He would have been happy if he might have affected not to see her . |