A nice sort of detective you turned out to be.

Barnes's Hotel used to be a nice, quiet sort of place.

Her husband seems a nice sort of a man, but she can't get over being an old maid, that's what.

"A nice sort of thing to want to find out," he said.

He must have been a nice sort of boy.

"He'll explain everything in a nice sort of voice and make you run three miles," he added.

He thought they had a nice sort of nutty taste.

He was thinking that Liz seemed like a pretty nice sort, and maybe a girl could help them sometime.

He seemed a nice sort, a friend of the family.

He's a nice sort of person but not very talkative.