Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] a friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next two days , Harry cycled through Zutphen and Arnhem to Eindhoven , where a cafe owner gave him coffee and rolls , and a priest , who was a friend of the cafe proprietor advised Harry who was now headed for the Dutch/Belgian border . |
| 2 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 3 | Christopher , who was a friend of my father 's , had the kiln brought here from my father 's workplace miles away , and said he 'd buy whatever I produced . |
| 4 | Francis Carco , who was a friend who had bought Modigliani 's work before the crowd , also bought Modigliani 's paintings , but he was given them for what he himself described as a ridiculously cheap price . |
| 5 | He got her in to see an agent who was a friend of Jock Lennox , and he had arranged an appointment with a producer who was sending out a show with the American Ragtime Octette and Cissie Loftus the impressionist , as well as The Ramblers , a famous juggling act , and an Australian called Pansy Montague , who toured as La Milo , an exponent of the art of living statues . |
| 6 | But while this was happening another student , who was a friend of both the dying man and myself , became convinced that God was going to heal the clergyman of his cancer . |
| 7 | To help pay the rent , we let a back room to a nervous queer with pale , bulging eyes , who was a friend of a friend . |
| 8 | I had lost my virginity to a Belgian au pair who was a friend of my eldest sister . |
| 9 | He also refers to Fairfax , he means Sir Thomas Fairfax who is still alive , you know , who was a friend of Mademoiselle Cohn-Casson . |
| 10 | I knew Max Jacob , who was a friend of his . |
| 11 | The site was off-limits to the public but the resident warden 's wife let us look around the bath-house area as a favour to our guide who was a friend of hers . |
| 12 | This does not mean separation from sinners , in a sense of isolation and self-satisfaction like the monks of Qumran ; instead , it means involvement with needy , fallen , spoiled humanity , following the example and endued with the Spirit of him who was a friend of tax gatherers and sinners . |
| 13 | If there was any sign of a rastrellamento in the neighbouring villages or in our own , a carabiniere who was a friend of the family used to cycle over and warn her . |
| 14 | He knew the fine private collections that were being amassed by men like Frank Burty , who was a friend , and most of all he must have been interested in the objects bought by his painter friends . |
| 15 | ‘ If you remember , Luke Scott was with us for six months as a favour to the station 's director-general , who was a friend of his , because our listenership figures were dropping and we were losing advertising . |
| 16 | It concerns a man who was a friend of mine . |
| 17 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
| 18 | His father had kept two sets of books — following the advice of an accountant who was a friend of a friend . |
| 19 | In the early Spring of 19231 began having Greek lessons from a charming elderly lady — Miss Rose Montague — who was a friend of my housemistress at St. Leonards . |
| 20 | She had assumed his letters were the product of his lifelong rage , the festering cancer of his childhood , driving him into unreasonable behaviour , and a tendency to see the worst in anyone who was a friend of Charles . |
| 21 | George , who was a friend of the Old Groaner for 25 years , will be talking about how Bing came to record White Christmas which became the world 's greatest hit even though Crosby was n't impressed by it at first . |
| 22 | McLean was described by the prosecution as a divorced alcoholic who was a friend of the dead woman . |