Example sentences of "had been happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , not quite , but she felt safer after the memory of other loves , other times when she had been happy . |
| 2 | Not only was I an only child but my dad 's father was an orphan and my mum 's family had been happy to get out of Kensal Town — which was a little down the road . |
| 3 | There had been a time , a brief time , a glorious dawn , when despite her growing awareness of her own sexual failure , despite her anger and frustration , despite her own laziness and lack of commitment , there had been a time when she had been happy and hopeful and joyous . |
| 4 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 5 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 6 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 7 | There is something puzzling here , since Mrs Moore , though an unbeliever , had been happy to have her own daughter confirmed , and there is a steady succession of references in Jack 's letters and diaries , during the years 1919–1931 , of attendance at church with Minto . |
| 8 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 9 | Well yes , Angie had been very busy and preoccupied with the wedding preparations , naturally , but she had been happy . |
| 10 | Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme . |
| 11 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 12 | Children who did not want to grow up haunted Kensington gardens because they had been happy there . |
| 13 | Barrie had lost his youth , but he , too , had been happy , because he had met the children there . |
| 14 | Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago , it had been happy . |
| 15 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 16 | Martin was a close friend of the family as well as his business partner and Varna had been happy for her to go with him . |
| 17 | In the past they had been happy to sit and watch the match all afternoon ( even if that meant dying from the cold ! ) . |
| 18 | ‘ If her marriage had been happy she might well have been philosophical about the new baby , ’ her lawyer said . |
| 19 | The Netherlands had been happy to accept the supranational principle in advance , but insisted on retaining the right to withdraw from the discussions should it prove impossible in its eyes for the ideas to be turned into economic practice . |
| 20 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 21 | As the years passed , the sights and sounds became less alarming in her memory and she came to think of Italy as the place where she had been happy . |
| 22 | I had been happy and thought he would n't mind . |
| 23 | Jim said I appeared to be : George had been happy with a metal fence . |
| 24 | Even her mother , when she visited the Lab before Brenda took up her post , had been happy about her working alone with him . |
| 25 | I had been happy at Magdalen and this was a moving occasion . |
| 26 | It was a simple piece of equipment that could be plugged into an ordinary power socket , and Faye had been happy to remain where she was . |
| 27 | She did not need to be told that they had been happy here , the three of them . |
| 28 | Her father had been happy , had friends , had this wonderful talent . |
| 29 | Paige had been happy to house-sit for him until a relative could arrive , and in the meantime she had done a little searching around of her own in the markets . |
| 30 | Both the local people and the expatriate community had been happy to befriend the pretty blonde newcomer and her infant son , with the result that whenever Ashley came down to the village she spent a good proportion of her time chatting . |