Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be nice to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be nice to you and smile — |
| 2 | I 'll be nice to you and smile . |
| 3 | I 'll be nice to you and smile . |
| 4 | I 'll be nice to you and smile |
| 5 | Equally interestingly , Mr E felt he was managing to convey something of his greater hopefulness to Dave 's mother , using insight-promoting questions when she kept praising her daughter and complaining about Dave , and asking , for instance : ‘ What are the things you can be nice to him about at home ? |
| 6 | I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property . |
| 7 | But , most puzzling of all , why was the American so anxious that he should be nice to her … ? |
| 8 | Nick said , ‘ It must be nice to be so young that when you 're tired it only makes you look prettier . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It must be nice to be wanted . |
| 10 | water and what it does , it might be nice to just look at that to finish it off , so that if |
| 11 | I thought it might be nice to — ’ ‘ What do you want — my bloody autograph ? |
| 12 | Well mm well you , you can but it 'll be nice to , it will be nice to have something , something , you know , kind of some sort of list we can , we can refer to and , and say oh yes oh great he 's handed that one in now and , and sort of knock it off because I know they do keep records in the office but , you know just , just something so , so we know where you are erm and it also kind of er will perhaps help concentrate the mind on what you need to get done erm so er |
| 13 | Yeah , but it 'll be nice to though if everyone 's going . |
| 14 | It 'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice . |
| 15 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 16 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 17 | He 'd be nice to them , she knew . |
| 18 | So he would be nice to gays ; he would be in favour of , and even extend , abortion rights ; he would be anti-militaristic ; he would hug trees . |
| 19 | It would be nice to be totally irresponsible , he felt , and get so stinking drunk that he could say what he liked to them . |
| 20 | Ideally it would be nice to be the perfect shape tomorrow or next week , but this just is not going to happen . |
| 21 | It 's very difficult for an English group to make it there , so I thought it would be nice to a French one because I quite admire that conservative spirit . |
| 22 | But there are just as many times when it would be nice to be anonymous . |
| 23 | But it would be nice to be told that he was all the same , even if it did make me feel a bit sad . ’ |
| 24 | I mean I think it would be nice to erm |
| 25 | ‘ All the same , ’ he said , when the spring buds burst on the seven trees that grew in Mafeking Street , along which Wendy had once half-run , half-walked , on her way to give birth to Apricot , ‘ it would be nice to be somewhere different , just for a time , just for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 26 | It would be nice to be able to ride . |