Example sentences of "[verb] it [modal v] [be] nice " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when he was alone with her he 'd said it would be nice to have a brother , but she 'd explained that it was n't possible . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps because I 've always thought it might be nice to have a honeymoon in Venice . ’ |
| 3 | He hung his medal in the shop , decided it would be nice to have a few more , and has been pounding out the miles since . |
| 4 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 5 | I mean I , I reckon it 'd be nice if they , they sort of parcel it up and then sell some of it |
| 6 | It was just that I and the others in the class — at least , the ones who turned up yesterday , a lot of people did n't bother — anyway , we felt it would be nice to send some flowers and a card or something to her relatives . |
| 7 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 8 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 9 | Andrew 's coming home for the weekend so I thought it would be nice to have a drinks party . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , my dear , that 's why I thought it would be nice to say a little prayer , to remind our dear Lord to take care of him . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I have three children of my own now and I thought it would be nice to surprise them with the sugar mice on the tree , and also the chocolate cat . ’ |
| 13 | Somebody re-mixed You 're My Best Friend the other day and I always thought it would be nice to re-balance that stuff , but when we got the tape out , it was all on one track , so that 's it . ’ |
| 14 | When his son was born he thought it would be nice , a nice gesture , to name him after Hilbert . |
| 15 | Proprietors of the Marquee Club from its original late '50s berth beneath the Academy Cinema on Oxford Street until 19887 , apart from anything else the Pendletons thought it would be nice to gather their musician friends together for a weekend garden party , and so they staged the National Jazz Festival at Richmond Athletic Ground on August 26/27 , 1961 . |
| 16 | Having made the Hannover picture I thought it would be nice to have a smaller version , so I now have a two-metre square version on canvas , also painted with Scanachrome , and I am working on the area of the television screen in a more painterly manner than I was able to use on the large one . |
| 17 | When we were outside the house , where no one could hear us , she said : ‘ As nobody is out at this time I thought it would be nice to go to that field which is full of melons . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , that too , but I just thought it would be nice to have actually met a member of the family , even if you did n't know who he was . |
| 19 | ‘ She — er — she thought it would be nice for you to visit her , ’ she admitted at last . |
| 20 | I thought it would be nice ; he 'd asked me specially . |
| 21 | Sometimes I thought it would be nice … to have someone . |
| 22 | I know , but it 's too dear , I looked at that and thought it would be nice to have your name on a brick , but to me twenty pound , if they made it cheaper more people would buy it would n't they ? , what building is it ? |
| 23 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 24 | Which basically I mean she 's had so she thought it would be nice for her to get away just to sort of sa you know have a breather from it all . |
| 25 | I thought it might be nice to — ’ ‘ What do you want — my bloody autograph ? |
| 26 | comes along or not , but I just thought it might be nice to give him a break away from home and he wo n't go on his |
| 27 | I thought it might be nice to put her back on her vitamin tablets actually it 's just a vitamin C haliborange one . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I thought it 'd be nice if we all went together . |
| 30 | I thought it 'd be nice if you get , the teachers I get on really well with a bottle of wine or something . |