Example sentences of "glad to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After swimming she had felt completely alive and glad to be awake and have this time of her own , which had been a gift to her from Tom and Maggie . |
| 2 | I 'm real glad to be out of that place . |
| 3 | Glad to be male Hip-hop , body pop , rap , heavy metal — why do large chunks of pop get rubbished , ignored or mocked ? |
| 4 | Mr Goodwin said afterwards that he was glad to be spending Christmas at liberty . |
| 5 | Most of the Vietnamese were glad to be sent home . |
| 6 | Some said they were glad to be out of the fighting : ‘ We are not prisoners , we are guests , ’ in the words of one . |
| 7 | I sometimes did little unexpected kid things out of my tenderness for her , and was always glad to be the one to take up tea for her if she was unwell , and so on , or to help her with the housework when she was servantless . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm glad to be back . ’ |
| 9 | Sing if you 're Glad to be Gay — Sing if you like it that way … |
| 10 | ‘ And I am glad to be here , ’ Florence Ames said , ‘ so we must enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He knows I am trying to escape , ’ I announced , abruptly , glad to be here again . |
| 12 | I had met both rivers previously on my travels , and felt glad to be present at their marriage . |
| 13 | Glad to be in Dublin once more , I roamed around the shops , noticing that many bakers had ‘ Brack Loaves ’ on display , with rings placed on them . |
| 14 | He even went so far as to say he missed her and Pilade , and would be glad to be home . |
| 15 | He was to add that the French should also be glad to be allied to the Scots , ‘ for from Scotland we may repulse the English , and from thence enter easily into their country , which gives no great odds against them , and thus enables us to curb and check them . ’ |
| 16 | As he spoke , supporters of the Outrage organisation waved banners saying ‘ Glad to be gay ’ and ‘ Queers surf too ’ . |
| 17 | Although feeling weak , Churchill said she was glad to be home . |
| 18 | Just after Pissarro left Norwood , heartily glad to be going back to France , a young Dutchman arrived in London with a very different attitude . |
| 19 | ‘ When I saw a stage-play instead of a sermon on the Lord 's days … and heard little preaching but what was … against the Puritans , I was glad to be gone . ’ |
| 20 | Owls hooted and bats fluttered , and the pirates were glad to be past the eerie gravestones and the gloomy prison door . |
| 21 | He opened the door of the basket and Endill climbed out shaking , but glad to be on solid ground . |
| 22 | After dinner Mr and Mrs Webster retired to the ‘ Front Room ’ to sleep off the meal , and I was glad to be going on evening watch , which I believed would help to dispel my sense of isolation . |
| 23 | ‘ Glad to be rid of you for a while , ’ she retorted . |
| 24 | ‘ I would be very glad to be of assistance , sir . ’ |
| 25 | And reflecting this unease , the visiting valets and footmen appeared to regard one another with marked coldness and my own staff were rather glad to be too busy to spend much time with them . |
| 26 | The miming aspect of it was a drag but I was really glad to be on there to dispense with all those horrid people . |
| 27 | That is until we stopped for a toilet break in a lay-by , when the howling gale and torrential rain lashed our naked bottoms like a Cabinet minister in a Soho sauna , and made me glad to be back in the car beside the sleeping-bags . |
| 28 | He 's given them something else back for their money , and I 've been glad to be part of it . |
| 29 | But if he was lost , he was glad to be so . |
| 30 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |