Example sentences of "[be] nice to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They just wanted everybody to be nice , like they 're nice to you when you 're a kid . |
| 2 | ‘ But if you 're nice to me , now , I can maybe help you get a cut of your own when we sell you . |
| 3 | ‘ Mind you 're nice to him , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Teachers are seen in a more positive light , ‘ because they 're nice to us — because they 're learning us ’ . |
| 5 | He said I just speak to him he said when I see him and they 're nice to me and I 'm nice to them . |
| 6 | If you 're nice to him — I wo n't use the language over the air ( because you 'd be shut down ) that he uses to me — however nice you are to him it does n't make a bit of difference . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 9 | ‘ Then when I started travelling seriously I used to go and be nice to my bank manager , which was n't so easy . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a name I seem to be stuck with , but it really would be nice to be called something else for a change , says actor Nigel Havers , best known for his role in the ITV series of the same name . |
| 11 | It 'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It would be nice to be totally irresponsible , he felt , and get so stinking drunk that he could say what he liked to them . |
| 14 | Sadie was wary of my other two dogs ; Mindy decided she would try to be nice to her , while Ben just wanted to play . |
| 15 | Ideally it would be nice to be the perfect shape tomorrow or next week , but this just is not going to happen . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She really wanted him to teach the swimming , believing that they might achieve for Nails , even if only because they were frightened not to ; that was the reason she had made herself be nice to him , inviting him to come up when Miss Bedwelty came . |
| 18 | Bina , I say to myself — you think these people will be nice to you because you 're your parents ' daughter , because you 're Cal 's friend and she 's pretty , because you 're Chris 's … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The election campaign has forced Britain 's MPs to be nice to absolutely everybody , no matter how irritating . |
| 21 | Now try the following : bear with me — it 'll make you take time ; give him a bear hug — be nice to your counterpart ; I ca n't bear it — you are taking this personally , stop . |
| 22 | Measurable — i.e. not ‘ be nice to my mother ’ , because what is ‘ nice ’ ? |
| 23 | Folks should be nice to one . ’ |
| 24 | When Olwyn hits out at Mr and Mrs Jones they try to cuddle her and be nice to her . |
| 25 | But there are just as many times when it would be nice to be anonymous . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | 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 . |