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Example sentences for "should have been glad"

  • Sir, said I, could I have been without those innocent exercises, as you are pleased to call them, I should have been glad to have been as dull as a beetle.

  • I should have been glad to give five hundred louis for her, but I did not see how the contract was to be drawn up, and I was not going to throw my money away.

  • I, giving her my box, which I should have been glad to turn into gold.

  • Not caring for her I should have been glad if he had fallen in love with her; there would have been no difficulty, I believe, on her part, and certainly not on mine; but nothing came of it.

  • We should have been glad of something to drink, but we were not yet sufficiently thirsty to induce us to get water from the pond.

  • We should have been glad of something of the sort ourselves, but as we could not attempt to cook anything, and the meat I had brought was raw, we gave the whole of it to our four-footed friend.

  • I should have been glad, for some reasons, to have had the power of sending you into the Royal Navy; but I have no interest to get you in, and still less any to advance you in it.

  • I should have been glad to have him by my side for the sake of companionship; it also struck me that should he come, he might possibly be able to bite through the thongs if I could show him what I wanted done.

  • As we rode along we kept a look-out for kangaroos, as we should have been glad to kill one for ourselves, although our black friends were not likely to benefit by it.

  • At length however, as the sun grew hotter, I should have been glad enough to remount.

  • I asked; for it is just as well always to be sure beforehand when it comes to pay-though, of course, I should have been glad to have him with me without money and without price.

  • I should have been glad to the bottom of my heart if I could have blotted out of my life all this new tragedy and gone back to the looms and spindles.

  • I should have been glad to have borrowed or bought or stolen him.

  • I should have been glad to have seen it, said I to him, but this is no Rarity in our Country.

  • But I should have been glad to have known for a certainty that he was to have set out.

  • They were talking quite amiably, and although I should have been glad to have said something to show that I noticed the change, I expect that it was prudent of me to be silent.

  • For once in my life I should have been glad not to see the sun, but the week during which we had to put on paper the results of over two years' work was most cruelly hot, and all of us were glad when it was over.

  • It was a relation I should have been glad to maintain with any member of the company, but it was only O'Farrell who found himself equal to it.

  • I was not conscious of any private advantage; certainly so far as our beginnings were concerned, none showed, and I should have been glad of their company .

  • I should have been glad once; if it were possible I'd be glad now to have kept your house and borne your children, and see to it that they brushed their teeth and had hair ribbons to match their clothes.

  • That is perhaps part selfishness in me, I should have been glad to see him become a doctor because it is such a beautiful calling, and it would have inevitably taught him to understand our ideals.

  • It was a pity, as we should have been glad to hear the betrothal formulas.

  • I should have been glad to begin here, but both of us had our eyes upon Batavia.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "should have been glad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fine style; knew must; should also; should attempt; should endeavour; should fancy; should feel; should leave; should marry; should observe; should only; should please; should prefer; should probably; should produce; should propose; should rather; should receive; should remain; should seeme; should speak; should take; should walk; should wish; should you; walked slowly