But he was a nice bloke when you got to know him.

I know Woody and he's a really nice bloke, a lovable guy.

We were never intimates, but he was friendly, intelligent, a nice bloke.

Perfectly nice bloke, I expect, apart from forcing me to hire that salesman.'

So, what are the downsides to achieving fame through playing a thoroughly nice bloke?

Looks a nice bloke too, a good trainer and someone who might be captaincy material one day.

My ex-wife married a nice bloke who owns two video rental shops, and they moved to Slough.

But David Seaman is an outlier, a nice bloke reduced to quite literally appalling lengths to fit in.

Maybe I should ask the nice bloke next door with whom he'd already struck up a bond, it seemed?

Nyman's a nice bloke.'

Seems like a nice bloke too, but won't be the favourite tourist among his team as his absence cost 14 points.

He was a nice bloke who bore no relation to the stereotypical racist yob that people now associate with that time.

He will be seen as a popular appointment among members as much for being a genuinely nice bloke as for his professionalism.

Certainly that's a negative narrative about Di Natale that plays around the Greens - nice bloke, Richard, sure, but wrong man for the times.

One of the biggest stars in Hollywood also happens to be a thoroughly nice bloke, even if he does make $28 million a movie.

Don't want those nice blokes' wives collecting their pensions because they got eaten, do you?