Example sentences of "he [modal v] be glad " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence of other colleagues is an obvious source of satisfaction and help : he needs their advice ; he may be glad to have their personal help with the students , perhaps supervising or guiding a group , or talking to the entire class ; and he needs their selections and productions . |
| 2 | Surely he should be glad to see her go ? |
| 3 | ‘ He 'll be glad to get that behind him . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'll be glad to get that behind him . |
| 5 | So he 'll be glad to know that she thought about him and wanted him to know it . ’ |
| 6 | His own shower were n't around to hear that , he 'll be glad to get back to where he rates as a hero . ’ |
| 7 | I should think he 'll be glad when that 's done wo n't he ? |
| 8 | You know , so erm he 'll be glad to be home I think . |
| 9 | He 'd be glad to thrash thee senseless . ’ |
| 10 | Anyroad , he told himself , he 'd be glad when she was gone . |
| 11 | He 'd be glad when this was over and he could settle down to enjoy himself again . |
| 12 | If Steen turned nasty , he 'd be glad of a quick getaway . |
| 13 | I 'm sure he 'd be glad to see you . |
| 14 | And I said , you know , well if you were n't a good cook , he 'd be glad to go out and have one ! |
| 15 | No special secrecy was attached to the cruiser — indeed , Khrushchev told the disconcerted Admiralty that he would be glad to sell it to them because cruisers had been out-dated by missiles . |
| 16 | He said my words were of pellucid clarity and great wisdom , but he knew nothing of poison , and if I wished to complain , he would be glad to take sherbet with you , or with Zacco . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He would be glad to get the interview done . |
| 19 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 20 | Although he would be glad to see the back of the lot of them , it was n't yet time . |
| 21 | He reflected that he would be glad when the Simonova reached her destination . |
| 22 | He would be glad to see her . |
| 23 | John-William had come across Mr Moon several times in Leeds and Manchester , had found him to be a decent fellow , and received a strong impression that for the sake of his children — offspring of his first wife long deceased — he would be glad to get back into society again . |
| 24 | Dear God , he was beginning to think he would be glad of it . |
| 25 | Coffin thought he would be glad to have the full postmortem results on each body to know exactly how much poison was inside each stomach . |
| 26 | Charles of France might shrink from fomenting a direct war , but he would be glad to use every oblique weapon against the upstart king who had deposed his son-in-law , and sent his little widowed daughter back in clumsy state , but without her dowry , which had been fed of necessity into King Henry 's treasury to keep it solvent during his first year of kingship . |
| 27 | He would be glad to take you with him . |
| 28 | He would be glad to come with us . |
| 29 | He will be glad to know that we have set up a noise review working party and that one of the issues that it has been considering is traffic noise and how to deal with it more effectively . |
| 30 | Presumably they ignored him and he will be glad to relinquish his bed of nails as Secretary of State . |