Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] proud " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slater sent Ward away on the left and his cross was met by Allen who unleashed a stunning volley into the net of which Marco van Basten would hve been proud . |
| 2 | McMahon strove to retaliate but was denied by an advance by Jaroslaw Bako of which the maestro at the other end would have been proud . |
| 3 | Her grandmother would have been proud . |
| 4 | The man for the crisis proved to be Downton , who stayed with Gower till the end , which came when Botham declared on 302 for 6 ; they were helped by Marshall not being able to bowl , but it was still a fine piece of concentration of which Ken Barrington would have been proud . |
| 5 | Dr Dichter would have been proud of that piece of depth thinking . |
| 6 | Even Scudamore would have been proud of Sansome 's recovery at the Chair . |
| 7 | Sir William Wallace would have been proud of them . |
| 8 | I was growing in emotional courage , and I had the rather wry thought that Leslie would have been proud of me . |
| 9 | He would have been proud to know that this was the idea that really made his name for posterity . |
| 10 | We did n't have ‘ team spirit ’ any more , ( Miss Brodie would have been proud of us ! ) . |
| 11 | In a piece of fancy footwork of which Gekko would have been proud , America 's fat cats have capped a record year by undermining President-Elect Bill Clinton 's plans to soak the rich , before he has even set foot in the White House . |
| 12 | PRINCESS Diana would have been proud of them . |
| 13 | ‘ Have faith in the future , my princes , ’ she had concluded , ‘ and be of good cheer — you are your father 's sons , and he who laughed always at adversity would have been proud of you . |
| 14 | Dr John Foley would have been proud to drive his eldest son up to Earlsfort Terrace and wave him into his first day at university . |
| 15 | As I watched her I thought Granny would have been proud if she 'd been alive to see Mary now . |
| 16 | here old fashioned soft touch detective work can still be observed in the bars and campsites ; private eyeballing of which a Bogart or a Mitchum would have been proud — last call for a way of life about to disappear for ever . |
| 17 | The late Ray Petri would have been proud of this issue . |
| 18 | Bob Holderness would have been proud of him . |
| 19 | ‘ Dad would have been proud . ’ |
| 20 | Then he locked his father in a grip Ray himself would have been proud of . |
| 21 | It 's not the greatest gig ever and resembles a scene from Casualty , but it shows Lush to be a band full of spunk and I think Freddy would have been proud . |
| 22 | A West Point cadet would have been proud of those shoes already . |
| 23 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 24 | " My father would have been proud of you , " he spat , " did he even realize the half of what you did , eh ? " |
| 25 | Motor racing , however , extends beyond the world of high-powered McLarens ' , Williams ' and Ferraris ' : Britain 's Derek Bell and Belgium 's Jacky Ickx have shown a domination of sports car racing in the last decade that Fangio , Lauda , Prost and co. would have been proud of in Formula One . |
| 26 | The great Kemble would have been proud of him : he was more than a little proud of himself . |
| 27 | Jeanne had the kind of titties of which Mae West would have been proud : large and firm and magnificently rounded . |
| 28 | George would have been proud of her , as I am sure Steven is . |
| 29 | Indeed , getting kitted up like a beatnik represented a self-help endeavour , of which , if he could have made an imaginative leap , Samuel Smiles himself would have been proud . |
| 30 | I am sorry Ma has missed this , she would have been proud of me . |