Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a nice [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 We 're not going to make anything right this minute , cos first of all we 're going to sit down have a nice cup of tea and Christopher 's going to read to me , so we 're going to get that out of the way before the excitement thing happens
3 You only need a nice pudding and you 've won
4 Thanks very much for your time it 's five o'clock have a nice evening and I 'll see you in the morning .
5 Some think it looks a bit '70s but I disagree ; if it were sandwiched with mahogany , maybe , but for me the maple just adds a nice touch of detail .
6 She was n't worried about her wardrobe in comparison to me having landed on the on the road , which I thought was extremely good considering that she I 'd just demolished a nice piece of her f er a piece of her furniture .
7 ‘ I was unemployed for two years and I have just got a nice job .
8 Well ladies generally wear a nice dresses .
9 I 'll soon have a nice meal ready for you … ’
10 mm , could just drink a nice cup of tea
11 It works because companies would sooner pay a nice person they know than a computer .
12 Oh you just need a nice fork .
13 Hertz 's experiment referred to above provides a nice example .
14 Fucking makes a nice chilli as well .
15 Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days .
16 and they forget to tell you that once upon a time does n't always have a nice ending , yeah
17 I do n't rightly know but only that he worked in a shop , a big shop , and he always wore a nice suit .
18 Not that the Roman aristocracy did n't look after the people who worked for them — though people nowadays do n't like it when you say so — servants did n't sleep the way they did in Tsarist Russia or at Versailles before the revolution , but it still did n't seem good enough to Anna — I told you she was American ? — so Mena always had a nice room of her own ; later on too , at Brown 's Hotel .
19 He always likes a nice cuddle .
20 Despite rumours to the contrary , Sun says it will not discontinue Sparcstation 2s , which still represent a nice piece of change .
21 Tonight I shall have a few pints , take Jenny out to dinner , probably attack a nice bottle of claret , and sleep like a stone .
22 Now have a nice time , ’ Emma said , ‘ You wo n't fight with Daddy , will you Mammy , not tonight , or tomorrow ? ’
23 If he has n't got a nice home you call him a layabout . ’
24 He even developed a nice line in badinage with the unusually genial Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock .
25 Half an hour later , eased out of her coat and hat , her belongings piled by Stephanie 's bed since they would n't fit in her room , she said , " You would n't have a nice cup o' tea , would you ? "
26 After all , we ca n't 'ave a nice lady like you takin' a good 'idin' from that ‘ usband o' yours , now can we ? ’
27 Oh here comes a nice man with er an injection .
28 ‘ So how come a nice girl like you is trailing the streets of London beating up strangers under an assumed name ? ’
29 Oh dear well you 've certainly made a nice job of it here anyway .
30 Too small and you 're likely to compress the filling and lose loft , too large and the bellows action of air as you move about in the bag will ensure you never keep a nice layer of still warm air around you , essential to keep you cosy .
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