Sentence examples for had been grateful from inspiring English sources

But, she continued, perhaps she had been grateful that the book-review assignment granted her the opportunity to tell it.

Gordon Brown said yesterday he had been grateful for Callaghan's support and advice, while Tony Blair also sought his counsel.

Evelina Grzymala, 22, who worked at a tanning salon next door, said the late restaurateur had been grateful to the British chef.

His wife, Colleen Salinger, told a local paper that the author had been grateful for the "protective envelope" that locals had given him.

Alcott said she had been grateful for the financial support she had received but added she had also put her own money into her career.

Helen had been grateful for his blunt skepticism, because it allowed her to take the opposite position with a kind of self-righteousness that she would not otherwise have been able to muster.

Tony Blair may also have been grateful.

In theory, I should have been grateful.

But he would have been grateful for the publicity.

I've been grateful that it's going well.

"We've been grateful to the Americans since the war.