Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have been happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 2 | Were we so I should have been happy to kill you for speaking so of my daughter . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have been much better if I could have been happy working at the forge . |
| 4 | Bond said : ‘ I 'd have been happy to attend the game but have been advised by others not to . |
| 5 | I 'd have been happy to transcribe them just anyplace . ’ |
| 6 | Let me tell you something , Mam : I 'd have been happy to have had a bastard and to have taken my chance on never being married . |
| 7 | ‘ I must say I 'd have been happier , ’ said Rose , when everyone was suited and they had all sunk into their chairs , ‘ if Viola had kept away . |
| 8 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others . |
| 10 | If I were a doctor I would have been happy to stay in Calcutta and work alongside British doctor , Jack Pregar , and his clinic in Middleton Row . |
| 11 | ‘ I would have been happy to give you three times the amount — if your story had proved that the boy was good . ’ |
| 12 | Lady Eleanor would have been comfortable but securely kept , and I would have been happy . ’ |
| 13 | I would have been happy with refurbishment of my old flat . |
| 14 | Even then , I would have been happier if all my St John 's and Red Cross personnel were proved medically fit . |
| 15 | Lawrence said : ‘ I would have been happier with a 1–0 win . |
| 16 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 17 | She may have been happier , |
| 18 | She would have been happiest with a flamethrower . |
| 19 | Rain rallied although she would have been happy to stay where she was , lying on the bed . |
| 20 | Daphne felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy ’ ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with the American actress Gertrude Lawrence' |
| 21 | She felt that if she had n't been a girl , she would have been happy . ’ |
| 22 | If only it had left us alone , we could have been happy , we could have gone on being happy . |
| 23 | Within a month the tense of the verb curdles : ‘ It seems to me that if I had been your husband , we would have been happy together . |
| 24 | ‘ We would have been happy to have matched last year , so we are delighted with our performance . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We would have been happy to let the variable premium scheme that expired in April 1989 run forever , but the CAP reforms focused on a 30 per cent reduction in cereal prices over three years and the commission decided it was necessary to compensate beef farmers feeding cattle on grass , ’ he said . |
| 26 | However , though , there were many areas that we would have been happy to listen to proposals about . |
| 27 | ‘ If they were happy enough to let me through the door then they should have been happy to let me win their draw . |
| 28 | What remains is regret , a persistent idea that they might have been happy in the homeplace , if only they could have survived there . |
| 29 | But for his guardians and his lack of friends , he could have been happy here , he thought as he went round the front of the car to open the door for Madeleine . |
| 30 | He finally finds contentment in living a basic life and repaying Joe what he owes him and he soon realises that he could have been happy staying with Joe in the forge . |