Example sentences of "[pers pn] a nice [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is she a nice old lady ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm Aggie. ’ she announced firmly , ‘ I 'm going to make you a nice hot cup of tea . |
| 3 | Daddy 's cut you a nice thick slice . |
| 4 | There , Nick , your Mum 'll get you a nice little kitten . ’ |
| 5 | I bought you a nice little savoury egg . |
| 6 | It 'll give you a nice little break from the typewriter . ’ |
| 7 | George said eagerly , ‘ I 'll find you a nice little gig . |
| 8 | And when he would arrive from Barnard Castle with a heavy load of shopping on a bicycle and give me a nice round bun he would buy as a special treat from a shop called Guy 's . |
| 9 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 10 | First mix me a nice light green . |
| 11 | But she offered me a nice sunny room under the eaves at the back . |
| 12 | Well I do n't think we owe it to them we just delivered them a nice big salary and they 've got more than enough work to do . |
| 13 | Give him a nice straightforward GBH case in the back streets of the Cumbermound development any day rather than these smartarse church intellectuals with their fancy words and their finicky manners and their too high opinions of themselves . |
| 14 | We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see . |
| 15 | This morning I boiled her a nice fresh egg , and she ate the lot . |
| 16 | ‘ … at least her husband bought her a nice little boutique in Hauz Khas Village . |
| 17 | Nigel sent her a nice little note inviting her for a drink . |
| 18 | We 'll give it a nice gentle run through . |
| 19 | Cracks in bitumen felt can be sealed with a bitumen mastic , but even if you find the roof surface in relatively good condition , it would be a good idea to give it a nice thick coat of roofing compound , such as Isoflex , by Roncraft . |
| 20 | Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay . |
| 21 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 22 | And we 'd do the maintenance and watering instead of just selling the plants , which would give us a nice steady income . |
| 23 | It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with . |