Example sentences of "to [be] nice " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 2 | But then managers are not paid to be nice . |
| 3 | They 've got to be nice , have the right psychological approach , otherwise you 'd never go back to them again , would you ? |
| 4 | First she wanted Dot to be nice , next she wanted her to put a filthy thumb in her mouth and suck it . |
| 5 | Sadie was wary of my other two dogs ; Mindy decided she would try to be nice to her , while Ben just wanted to play . |
| 6 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 7 | Smallfry said that she was a wicked old woman who pretended to be nice just to trick people into liking her and believing her lies . |
| 8 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |
| 9 | You had to be nice to see the doctor . |
| 10 | But I never am alone — the house is full of people from morning till night , and my whole day is to be nice to them and get taken about . |
| 11 | Again , all the boys are circumcised according to tradition , and we do not need to flash the penis to prove us to be nice , Jewish boys . |
| 12 | The election campaign has forced Britain 's MPs to be nice to absolutely everybody , no matter how irritating . |
| 13 | By then , the fuses were short , and there was no time to be nice about quietness . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's going to be nice for TJ , ’ said Britt . |
| 15 | ( Well , death is not supposed to be nice . ) |
| 16 | They just wanted everybody to be nice , like they 're nice to you when you 're a kid . |
| 17 | On behalf of their inarticulate owners , these clothes say ‘ I 'm not playing ! ’ and then sit on the sidelines ( so you can see how upset you 've made them ) , and wait for the world to be nice . |
| 18 | And no doubt next time we do a piece on East Anglian rock — it took us nearly 40 years to do this one , so the next one should be in 2032 — we promise to be nice to Ipswich . |
| 19 | Please sir , Axl 's doctor said we 're to be nice to him because he comes from a broken home and he has to wear a kilt . |
| 20 | We are not , however , forced to suppose that a baboon reasons , as a man would , that it will pay to be nice to X , because X is likely to reciprocate . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you want me to be nice or honest ? ’ |
| 22 | I like everything to be clean — not particularly tidy-I like the washing and ironing to be nice — nice and clean and nicely ironed . |
| 23 | I remember that warehouse , it used to be nice department store , everything knowingly oversold . |
| 24 | After poor Auntie Lou had tried so hard to be nice ! |
| 25 | I 'm trying to be nice . |
| 26 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 27 | ‘ But they was fake nice guys , pretending to be nice guys . |
| 28 | After , even if people tried to be nice , it was cold everywhere , and dark . |
| 29 | It is to be Nice all over again … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I want you to be nice to him . |