Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] friends " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her head and heart were in turmoil but no-one would have guessed it when later that evening she and Charles entertained 800 of their friends and family at a ball inside Buckingham Palace . |
| 2 | I lost half of my friends when it happened |
| 3 | He broke off and stepped back , for the King had broken free of his friends , and was running alone down the strand to the messenger . |
| 4 | Some of her friends insisted that she remain in Britain to revive a flagging and mismanaged campaign . |
| 5 | My constant message to my second daughter is that there is more in life than some of her friends aspire to . ’ |
| 6 | At least she has her family for support and company , and losing some of her friends and social outlets might be less damaging to her than to her single sister . |
| 7 | She was n't like some of her friends who needed sex like they needed food and drink . |
| 8 | Subtle changes take place , too , in the attitudes of some of her friends to whose circle she belonged when her husband was alive , which may lead her to feel rejected at a time when she needs to be accepted in her new role and to have her self-esteem strengthened . |
| 9 | Added to her humiliation was the knowledge that some of her friends , who had seen the incident , could have helped her but did not do so . |
| 10 | More fun , Carrie thought , and was glad she had n't been left behind , as some of her friends had been , in the big town at the other end of the valley . |
| 11 | Some of her friends bought cushions and pictures and even , extravagantly , curtains , in an effort to make rooms look homely , and though she liked the results , she viewed the aim with contempt . |
| 12 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 13 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 14 | Hannah , and some of her friends in Baldersdale , have vivid recollections of the gentry and their ways , and personal experience of accepting the ‘ God 's Penny ’ and going into service . |
| 15 | The organization for the event fell to Sybille , who was expected to invite some of her friends and family to lend an authentic French air to the proceedings . |
| 16 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 17 | Consulting an astrologer on a Friday evening for a bit of a laugh with some of her friends was just about passable . |
| 18 | While some of her friends have taken drugs , Caroline 's been in trouble with the police for stealing from shops . |
| 19 | And then , waiting until her mother-in-law had left the house for a game of bridge with some of her friends , Laura had gone downstairs to telephone her cousin in New York . |
| 20 | Some of her friends and family contributed . |
| 21 | Another evening when she invited some of their friends , including Juan Gris and his wife , to dinner at the cottage , Modi turned up late , drunk and covered with mud . |
| 22 | I had in mind the possibility of a UK registered Concorde crashing into the sea just outside the three mile limit of some State while making an approach to land there and possibly the Russians or some of their friends commencing to salvage it before we could do anything about it . |
| 23 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |
| 24 | We quickly made the acquaintance of everyone in our lane which was part of a very scattered village , and after the children started school there were always some of their friends around the house . |
| 25 | The judge was satisfied he told what he believed to be the truth about his fear for his own safety and his shock and horror at the suffering and death of many men , some of them friends . |
| 26 | Frankie and Liza were there with some of our friends , who gathered round to hear me excitedly telling my tale . |
| 27 | It is a little close to Christmas , but that seems a good excuse for a party and it 's high time we entertained some of our friends . |
| 28 | A Dunbartonshire gentleman attached to the Duke of Montrose became involved in what he described as ‘ a foolish ploy [ which ] happened at Glasgow the first day at the Circuit held ther with some of our friends & Barrowfields , wher we were all fyned ’ . |
| 29 | Some of our friends and neighbours were very cruel to me . |
| 30 | We spoke of the war in Eritrea , and the danger some of our friends are in . |