Example sentences of "happy [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's never been particularly happy about being in the group and it just came to a head . ’ |
| 2 | Like Sean and Michael , they were n't too happy about being in the midst of so many policemen , with all the exits covered . |
| 3 | The highlights of this short story are these : born on good Friday 1935 , numerous operations as a child on a club left foot , po-faced and basically afraid of the world until he was thirteen , bullied at school , fighting it by becoming the class clown , playing the piano and showing off , off to Oxford , Beyond the Fringe , doubling up with Peter Cook , growing up to be five feet two ‘ and a half — every half inch counts ’ , losing his virginity at 23 , Sixties success as Pete'n'Dud , a series of relationships with faces such as Celia Hammond , Tuesday Weld , Suzy Kendall , Susan Anton , love affair break ups and make ups , psychotherapy to sort out the hangover of a painful , frightening childhood , doubting Dudley , depressed Dudley , filthy Derek and Clive albums , worried about being 30 , happy about being 40 , frightened of being 50 , worrying Dudley , Dudley and jazz , Dudley in Hollywood making it big with 10 and Arthur , restless Dudley , manic Dudley , Dudley and son Patrick , million-dollar-a-film-Dudley , chasing chickens for Tesco , still small , still smiling , still pinching himself to believe it 's all real . |
| 4 | I was n't happy about being ruffled up by the beam , and left untidy and dusty . |
| 5 | are you happy with are you ? |
| 6 | ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do . |
| 7 | Whether you feel that these cocktails are what your roses will be happy with is very much like you considering whether you would be happy and healthy on a diet of fast and convenience food like hamburger and chips and little else . |
| 8 | Ca n't erm like the one she 's got upstairs is like all she was quite happy with is a seventy pound one . |
| 9 | Like BROWNIES they are happy with am offering of bread and milk at the end of the day . |
| 10 | Any response from me would have resulted in my being kissed on the forehead and my hair tousled ( and no boy is happy in being so treated , especially by a brother ) . |
| 11 | They are used to all sorts of emergencies , but there has never been anything like this : their own people , prepared to face appalling hardships , possible arrest or even death to get out , arriving exhausted but so happy to be free . |
| 12 | Since I gave Wiggen the reindeer he runs with his tail up , happy to be part of my team . |
| 13 | ‘ But then , when my work 's done and I go home , I 'm happy to be his wife . |
| 14 | Eighteenth-century audiences were quite happy to be fed agreeable background music ; it was their equivalent of muzak , played uniformly and without criticism . |
| 15 | The first house Jane looked at was moated and she was shown over by an ex-policeman who seemed happy to be working for an estate agent . |
| 16 | Yes , I was possessed , but happy to be so , if it allowed me to be with him , to feel him near me for a few hours every day . |
| 17 | They got on the bus puffing and blowing but happy to be inside in the warm , and sat in their own special places . |
| 18 | ‘ He did n't seem to be too happy to be here , that 's all , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Somehow we expect them to be happy to be kept in a place which is warm and dry , where they can eat to their heart 's content with their companions ; but no , they become quite upset . |
| 20 | She continued being ‘ the worst horse in the world ’ until one year she was served by yet another stallion ; but this time the stallion worked a genetic miracle upon the foal which was quite happy to be taught anything ! |
| 21 | Now I 'm happy to be photographed . |
| 22 | That still leaves a healthy blend of seasoned hands and determined younger players , many of whom are happy to be regarded as all-rounders rather than specialists . |
| 23 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 24 | He was quite happy to be Marcus 's dog , but it was possible that Marcus relied on his assuming some more dignified role . |
| 25 | He , while happy to be of some use , was not content that inequality on this scale should persist — inequality of opportunity , of course , for as a station-master he was a hierarchical man . |
| 26 | Dent was happy to be left alone . |
| 27 | It 's so persuasively and convincingly argued — especially for those of us most happy to be convinced — that it 's a trifle dampening to be reminded that these are ‘ image patterns whose sexual significance may have been hidden from the poet on a conscious level … . |
| 28 | Malachi clucked his tongue , shook the reins and the mare , happy to be moving again after standing in the cold for so long , trotted briskly away . |
| 29 | I did n't know what was going on , but I was happy to be there , sipping Dennis 's eight-quid-a-bottle plonk , trading glances with his vibrant young — well , youngish — wife and openly admiring the charms of her lovely concentrated body . |
| 30 | Most people would be only to happy to be able to enjoy such surroundings . |