Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] nice [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , we 're gardeners obviously trained to provide a nice working environment .
2 Right so it 's not just that the National Party want the people on the ground to choose the nice addresses .
3 Personally , I think that in choosing to wed a nice girl like Eunice Gray and have a son he made a very sensible move .
4 The neck pickup was warm and fat , the middle slightly brighter but still with lots of depth ( ideal for clean rhythm playing ) , while the bridge unit was sharp enough to create a nice shimmer through an outboard chorus , but warm enough to solo with the amp overdriving slightly .
5 I mean she she might want to buy a nice desk .
6 And if I want to wear a nice pair of Clarks ' grey espadrilles so then I will wear them .
7 I like to see a nice shine .
8 She began to dial a Nice number .
9 More and more Nigerians also take advantage of the price differences to do a nice business smuggling goods across the border into the franc zone .
10 It would be a pity to spoil a nice face like yours .
11 My mum 's the sort of person who 'll just argue with anything , if she thinks she 'll argue with anybody , or anything if she thinks that she 's being swindled , so like , she even went to the extent of having , they , we had an extension built , right , and she , we had it , only fair 's fair , this one particular suite , we had erm , and they , they had this absolutely massive bathroom built , okay not specifically to have a nicer bathroom , but to have a very big room and erm , so they had two sinks , this sounds real extravagant , erm ,
12 The cat 's owner was leaving the area and could not keep the animal , and she wanted it to have a nice home .
13 ‘ But I would like enough money to have a nice home of my own — and to be able to set my mother and my brothers up somewhere else .
14 Now you 'll be able to have a nice chat . ’
15 I want you folks to have a nice day , now ! ’ said an official in what was surely a parody of a Texas accent .
16 While wishing you to have a nice day wherever you may be , the folks at Dixons/Silo prefer that if you 're in the UK , you do your shopping at Dixons , where prices are 60 to 80 per cent higher .
17 For Saturday 's match with St John 's Chapel ( attendance three , we 're told ) the ‘ club notes ’ consisted of advice on where to drink afterwards and an injunction to have a nice day .
18 Dr. Briant says he was born to have a nice way with him . ’
19 Especially in recession cos ladies think better to have a nice navy cardigan I can wear with this hat .
20 Well I 'm hoping I 'm going to have a nice week but it Mavis , my housekeeper 's away until Wednesday so I ca n't leave the house during the day .
21 ‘ We were going to have a nice family Christmas .
22 I 'm going to have a nice steak for my tea tonight and then it 's dancing with the missus .
23 Oh no , it is nice to have a nice car but you have to make do do n't you ?
24 However , it had not been realised that we process speech as much by our expectations as by our sensations : it is easy for us to hear the same acoustic signal as ‘ It 's easy to recognise speech ’ or ‘ It 's easy to wreck a nice beach ’ according to context .
25 Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ?
26 ‘ And we want her to get a nice lot of money for it so that she can afford to go and visit her nephew up North , ’ added Mary .
27 You have to give the doorman a ten pound note or something to get a nice place you know
28 After all , until the last century Westminster Hall was used for royal banquets and coronation feasts ; surely it would be possible for people to order a nice cup of tea there .
29 I mean he might occasionally want to move it a foot , but there would be no way he 'd be able to make the nice adjustments in that way .
30 You may want to make the nice gesture , which was made to me when I first moved into a flat and I have repeated myself whenever I have moved , of leaving a plant or a box of chocolates and a note wishing the next occupants a happy life in your former home .
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