Sentence examples for stood happily from inspiring English sources

Shamefully willing to let executives do whatever they wanted during the bull market, shareholders have stood happily by even when their stakes have been wildly diluted.

But no one wanted to go, including the injured man, who was well on his way through a second bottle of wine, and the children, who, having discovered the echo, stood happily carolling into the valley.

In 2006 a visitor to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge caused more than £500,000 worth of damage when he slipped down a stairway and smashed a set of 300-year-old Qing vases that had stood happily on a shelf for 40 years.

I stood happily last week on the platform at Kirkby Stephen station, on the Settle to Carlisle line, which has just been restored so that, with a black and white camera, you could take a picture and imagine it was still 1911.

It is a country of people like the simple fruit-seller, babaji, at our college -- an ageless, wrinkled man who even with half his teeth and his sight gone, would stand happily next to his fruit cart making platters that we would all clamor for.

As for any political or personal subtext in Psalm 52, I am unqualified to pursue that line of questioning, and confident, in any case, that the poem stands perfectly happily without it.

Uqba stood and grinned happily down at her, his own Christine, tousled and flushed in the foetal position.

Italy's terrified establishment stood by quite happily as Mussolini's henchmen burned down Socialist headquarters, broke up political rallies and killed Socialist leaders.

Following the concert, he stood and posed happily with fans, belying that two new alleged victims have come forward recently since the singer's Berkshire home was raided by detectives last August.

Some of those states are led by Republicans: Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan happily stood beside Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday to accept nearly $200 million to upgrade the rail line between Dearborn and Kalamazoo, the bulk of the Chicago-Detroit corridor.

Lining up in front of the stage, the band played a stirring rendition of "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You" while Evan, Gwen, Julie, and I stood behind them, happily giving the "Hook 'em 'horns" salute.