Example sentences of "he [modal v] be happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He may be happy to see his father ! ’ |
| 2 | Her main motive had been simply her love for Jack , her desire to believe him , not to question him , not to cause him any pain , but to accept as fundamental that he must be happy . |
| 3 | ‘ People look at me , ’ he says , ‘ and they 're thinking , ‘ Oh , he 's on the telly , he must be happy as Larry . ’ |
| 4 | So give him Dentinox for starters , and he 'll be happy ever after . |
| 5 | I hope he 'll be happy . " |
| 6 | ‘ He 'll be happy to be alive and perhaps he 'll help me to escape . ’ |
| 7 | Can I say Chairman that erm my colleague erm Mr Potter i is our technical resident technical expert and er I 'm sure he 'll be happy to er to take on board any of the particular queries on the methodology that 's been adopted . |
| 8 | Shelley said shortly , ‘ He 'll be happy , Victoria . |
| 9 | But Will made it clear he 'll be happy to work with me and was keen that we all pull together . ’ |
| 10 | Gooch , and together at second , spinning it , it 's sort of back spin version frisbee , er puts it on his head , he 'll be happy with the way the morning 's gone hmm . |
| 11 | If Mr Lawson was , he might be happy to see the pound fall to ease the burden on companies . |
| 12 | He could be happy here now — if by some miracle Madeleine were to agree to get married and live in this house with him . |
| 13 | He 'd be happy there . ’ |
| 14 | Deep down Jack Butler was a simple man — give him a couple of Jaguars , a regular income pushing the half mill , a half-dozen talented sack-artists , preferably blond , and he 'd be happy . |
| 15 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 16 | He said he 'd be happy to oblige me any time I ‘ wanted it straight ’ . |
| 17 | Yes , of course , said Alex , no , he could n't pretend he was n't hurt , but thanks for saying it , and he 'd be happy to give any advice that might be required . |
| 18 | And there 'd be a drink in it for Duncan , so he 'd be happy . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure he 'd be happy to come with me . |
| 20 | Amused , McLeish said that he would be happy to wait in an outer office for copies of the various documents , or to have them sent on . |
| 21 | As Mr. Micawber said ‘ If a man had twenty pounds a year for his income , and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence , he would be happy , but if he spent twenty pounds one , he would be miserable ’ . |
| 22 | The standard form 1980 provides a procedure where the client puts forward three specialists whom he would be happy to see used . |
| 23 | He knew he would be happy if , in some way , it taught his mother a salutary lesson , but he could still quail , like a little boy , in anticipation of the violence of her wrath . |
| 24 | But he would be happy to be ‘ Godfather ’ to the project . |
| 25 | Although he said he would be happy to see Brokerage break even by the end of the 1993 fiscal year , he did add that this would depend on the timing and amount of licence sales made . |
| 26 | As Mr Micawber said ‘ If a man had twenty pounds a year for his income , and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence , he would be happy , but if he spent twenty pounds on , he would be miserable ’ , On a temporary and controlled basis , some excess expenditure can be justifiable — but when excess expenditure increases regularly , the danger signs flash up . |
| 27 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |
| 28 | He would be happy to see the Yu step into the gap left by the demise of the Ping Tiao . |
| 29 | She was a bad dancer and he would be happy to improve this lack and ignorance . |
| 30 | He would be happy to answer further questions , etc . ’ |