Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] his friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the case of a person whose reason for accepting his friend 's advice is that the friend will be hurt if he does not . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you found the number ? ’ he bawled to the child in the middle of a difficult run , thinking at the same time that the business of Henry 's going to the analyst for him was actually doing the opposite of freeing his friend . |
| 3 | Sidonius depicts the scheme as madness ; nevertheless he maintained his friendship for Arvandus , and he may even have given up his office of prefect of the City of Rome in order not to be involved in sentencing his friend . |
| 4 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 5 | The Beverly Hills 90210 star says he has n't touched booze since attending his friend 's funeral . |
| 6 | On hearing his friend 's predictions , Bouvard runs away in terror . |
| 7 | Help her , or help himself by warning his friend how much she knew ? |
| 8 | The logic of this has been held to extend to the situation where the person interposes by advising his friend of his legal rights ; the courts have held that this too amounts to obstruction . |