Example sentences of "[verb] [be] happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been plenty of advice on what to stock and , as he is still learning about what Sutton Coldfield customers may want , he has been happy to listen . |
| 2 | The Dazer was reviewed in RUNNING last May , and Andrew Green of Farnham has been happy with his . |
| 3 | Saint Winifred has been happy here seven years and more , and to this house she has returned . |
| 4 | My mother has been happy there for fifteen years . |
| 5 | Landowner John Davies has been happy to keep up the tradition . |
| 6 | Despite the poor results , manager Turlough O'Connor , has been happy with the way his side were playing . |
| 7 | They 'd been happy behind their cork and we 'd torn down their cover . |
| 8 | Ian Squires , severely autistic , returned to Islington in 1986 from a residential school where he 'd been happy . |
| 9 | Before that I 'd been happy to think of him vaguely in terms of Sartre , de Beauvoir , Paris , existentialism , absurdity … |
| 10 | He 'd been happy to be a spectator while she fucked him , but suddenly he reached up , and pulled her down on to him . |
| 11 | He 'd been happy here ; he 'd settled down and loved the new life he led . |
| 12 | After we 'd been happy , then we would have hated one another . |
| 13 | I needed to have her support , so when people said they did n't like it , I could say that she 'd been happy . |
| 14 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 15 | I have n't been able to explain this to Dr Grossman , because he would n't understand , but you will understand , and I hope be happy for me . |
| 16 | " Not too well , " he said shortly , and then added an odd thing : " I hope being happy is n't going to stop me writing . " |
| 17 | At last she said slowly , ‘ What I mean is , looking back over the past is always a bit sad , even if what you 're remembering is happy times , because it 's over and done . |
| 18 | All that remains to be said is Happy Christmas and good wishes for a New Knitting Year ! |
| 19 | ‘ But Teams who used to come here expecting to win are happy to contain us these days , and that 's a huge compliment to Norwich . ’ |
| 20 | and he 's Ron you 're going to experience a lot of things that you 're not going be happy about he says but I 'll let you find out for yourself . |
| 21 | But most of the people she telephoned were happy to see her . |
| 22 | But I remember being happy just staring at all the people passing by . |
| 23 | And I I like being happy . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 26 | I DO NOT feel , writes PC Michael B. S. Casey , that Mhoira Robertson would have been happy with an obituary ( by Joan Burnie , 3 October ) that was used as a platform to criticise her colleagues ( antiastunomologists — thank you , Anthony Burgess ) and the male species in general : ‘ and Scottish policemen do not like women much at all . ’ |
| 27 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 28 | I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others . |
| 29 | Inspector Reg White , of Holloway Police , said yesterday that his force , which was in charge of the drawn Portsmouth-Liverpool semi-final the Sunday before last , would have been happy to stage another replay at two or three days notice provided that certain financial requirements were met . |
| 30 | If I were a doctor I would have been happy to stay in Calcutta and work alongside British doctor , Jack Pregar , and his clinic in Middleton Row . |