Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] pleased " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really do n't see why any hostess should be pleased to see a total stranger arrive at her dinner party . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I still do n't see why she should be pleased to see me on Saturday evening , ’ said Henry Tyler mildly . |
| 3 | Purdy and Roy should be pleased with your draft for their Annual Report . |
| 4 | Peter Kennard 's photomontages are powerful anti-war images and as such we should be pleased to have them around . |
| 5 | At least the Americans should be pleased with Japan 's new budget . |
| 6 | ‘ You should be pleased . |
| 7 | ‘ I have some friends along the way who should be pleased to meet you . ’ |
| 8 | So , if you have done something in the past which you now regret and would do differently were the situation to repeat itself , you should be pleased that you have learned something vital and that your spirit , having dealt with that negative aspect , will not have to encounter it again . |
| 9 | Even Davout should be pleased , and that 's saying something . ’ |
| 10 | Whatever the cause , you should be pleased at such rapid success . |
| 11 | The Conservatives should be pleased also with Eric Pickles . |
| 12 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 13 | BEATRIX : You should be pleased I think otherwise . |
| 14 | ‘ You should be pleased , ’ he commented outrageously . |
| 15 | They were , fortunately , not identical , though why I should be pleased they were unidentical I do n't know , as identical twins are conceived of the same coupling ; unidentical very often of two separate couplings , and so far as I was concerned the less sexual congress Hugo and his Stephanie had the better . |
| 16 | She should be pleased and excited , but all she could think of was the complications it would add to her life . |
| 17 | The Labour party should be pleased about that , but , because those industries are its old power base , it naturally regrets that it no longer has trade union members coming from that source . |
| 18 | If the hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) would like to intervene , I should be pleased to give way , but if he listens he may learn something . |
| 19 | They should be pleased to turn for a moment from the Annual Assessment , which even they find a little dull , to some piece of historical research . |
| 20 | I 've just had two great jockeys John Francombe and Jonjo O'Neill phone me and they both agree it 's time I got out and I should be pleased they tell me |
| 21 | Now look you should be pleased about that ! |
| 22 | Supporters of the Libertarian Ideal must be pleased by the degree of public satisfaction with the press despite public perceptions of press bias . |
| 23 | Indeed they must be pleased by the traces of evidence that suggest that bias in a freely chosen medium such as a newspaper is actually popular with the electorate rather than resented . |
| 24 | Similarly they must be pleased by the traces of evidence that suggest partisan voters find the relative impartiality of television news somewhat irritating . |
| 25 | Satan must be pleased to be so fashionable again . |
| 26 | Sure an' they must be pleased seein' the geddle come up in the world like she has . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You must be pleased , ’ Harcourt said , ‘ her playing Cleopatra 's brother . ’ |
| 28 | You must be pleased . ’ |
| 29 | It would have been a shame if one mistake had cost the match and although the Cup remains on this side of the Atlantic the Americans must be pleased to have stopped their losing run and to fly home with their honour intact . |
| 30 | All I can say is her dad must be pleased . |