Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] delighted " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 3 | She 'd have been delighted with a cornfield and a few startled crows . |
| 4 | Sir Edward Elgar would have been delighted . |
| 5 | If local agencies had chosen to co-operate with police in combating the drugs problem , we would have been delighted . |
| 6 | He was tough to handle , ’ said Hansen , who would have been delighted to see the Dane acting as peacemaker in the volatile Manchester derby at Old Trafford this week . |
| 7 | Anyone in United 's famous championship sides of old would have been delighted to have scored the goal Kanchelskis produced at Old Trafford last night . |
| 8 | Cocteau would have been delighted to introduce Modigliani to his world of the new couturiers and of Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , to help him to become a fashionable and popular portrait painter . |
| 9 | He would have been delighted with a daughter who looked like that . |
| 10 | Weyl would have been delighted . |
| 11 | And : ‘ Nigel would have been delighted at your success and I was very moved by your point that at no time was he attended or touched by any but those close to him . |
| 12 | Participants were asked to write the letter so that , if they had really received it , they would have been delighted at how many of their own aspirations as a teacher had been fulfilled — at least for this one pupil . |
| 13 | It was an offer which many women of good family in the area would have been delighted to accept . |
| 14 | I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day . |
| 15 | Yorick would have been delighted to have it published . |
| 16 | No address , so Maman would have been delighted to recover it — all thanks to her observant little girl . |
| 17 | ‘ I should n't think there have been any shortage of women in your life who would have been delighted to make a home for you anywhere in the world ! ’ she told him waspishly , disliking the way he was making her feel a little sorry for him . |
| 18 | But nevertheless it is an application which is necessary , British Coal at the end of the day would have been delighted not to make it after all . |
| 19 | Finally , to the late , a long-standing member of the North East Division who would have been delighted to have seen me standing here today . |
| 20 | I 'm glad you said that , Chairman , I was I was just thinking erm , cut out the but , regarding on Equal Opportunities , erm , Policies , as we 've been discussing already , I would have thought housewives would have been delighted to have conservative hours rest presumably I just thought I was |
| 21 | In other circumstances Ronni would have been delighted to chat with them . |
| 22 | ‘ Jack Lawrence , ’ he said , and if the floor could have opened up and swallowed her she would have been delighted . |
| 23 | Of course , Mr McGibbon would have been delighted if his son had turned into another Stephen Roche . |
| 24 | ‘ In an ideal world , I would have been delighted to have had someone from the university on the trust . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Most others in the chemical industry would have been delighted to have them . ’ |