Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] [be] happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould would have been happy to remain in the same spot if it would continue providing him with novelties . |
| 2 | The whole room , scented with the Christmas goose , seemed to glimmer with warmth and merriment and if it had not been for fear of distressing the children , Alexandra would have been happy to burst into tears . |
| 3 | Although William would have been happy to keep bishops within the Kirk , the Scottish episcopal bench , led by Bishop Alexander Rose of Edinburgh , refused to accept the legitimacy of the new regime . |
| 4 | Robbie would have been happy to listen quietly , for the snippets she did overhear told her more about Fenton Marshall . |
| 5 | Now he had met her again , he found a different woman — and the one who was now emerging was the one with whom , ironically , Amotju could have been happy . |
| 6 | I DO NOT feel , writes PC Michael B. S. Casey , that Mhoira Robertson would have been happy with an obituary ( by Joan Burnie , 3 October ) that was used as a platform to criticise her colleagues ( antiastunomologists — thank you , Anthony Burgess ) and the male species in general : ‘ and Scottish policemen do not like women much at all . ’ |
| 7 | In the 1740s the French in India would have been happy enough to ignore the war in Europe and remain neutral , as they had done during earlier European wars , mainly because previous emperors could maintain the peace . |
| 8 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |