Example sentences of "friend of [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task was carried out , in remarkable circumstances , more than forty years ago by a good friend of England , the French historian , Edouard Perroy . |
| 2 | Unlike Dick Crossman , he was a close ally and friend of Hugh Gaitskell , and worked unsuccessfully against Wilson in the dispute over the succession to the leadership in 1963 . |
| 3 | But it made me think you must have been a friend of Hugh 's . |
| 4 | He tried to get a post at the British Museum , and was most indignant when it went to George Children , a friend of Davy and thus possessing superior patronage . |
| 5 | Being a close friend of Legrand and Couvelaire , I was not surprised when I first flew the prototype two years ago : soft and light as a feather , brilliant as a refined piece of thinking on how an ideal aircraft should fly , powerful as a civilianised fighter . |
| 6 | Actually it was an English friend of Van Halen 's who passed on the tapes to them . |
| 7 | Whereas George Bush was a long-time NRA member , Bill Clinton is a close friend of Sarah Brady ( wife of James Brady , the former White House press spokesman who was shot in the head during the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981 ) . |
| 8 | It came direct to HH because Miller is a friend of Pringle 's : he was her teacher at University College . |
| 9 | Earlier , a close friend of Pringle 's , Jason Ward , 20 , was shot in a minor road near Stillington , on the Cleveland-Durham border . |
| 10 | And any friend of Rober 's is a friend of ours . ’ |
| 11 | He had also become a close friend of Joseph Parker who had visited America in 1873 and 1884 . |
| 12 | On 21 January a decision was reached by the Düsseldorf Oberlandesgericht ( Court of Appeal ) on the case of Gotthard Graubner , a friend of Joseph Beuys , who had been successfully sued by Beuy 's widow for the resale fee arising from the auction of works of art by Beuys which realised a total of DM1.4 million at Christie 's London in June 1989 . |
| 13 | Jason Epstein , the editorial director at Random House and a friend of Seth 's father , took an interest , helping Seth to pare the book down to a readable length , then publishing Homeboy . |
| 14 | The appointment of Mr Stürmer , a friend of Chancellor Kohl and a man often seen on television , made some of the staff fear they were going to be ‘ politicised ’ . |
| 15 | Well she 's like , really she 's just like a friend of Kate Hardcastle cos |
| 16 | She had arrived in Paris in 1912 and soon became a good friend of Soutine and a familiar Montparnasse character . |
| 17 | Because of his position vis-a-vis me — friend of Helmut , lover of Jean-Claude — I could never tell whether he was frank with me . |
| 18 | A friend of Bailey stationed at Hullavington at the time , Corporal Steven Paterson , is accused of helping cover up the crime . |
| 19 | But he was n't a friend of Hilary 's , not so far as I know . ’ |
| 20 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 21 | He was for 55 years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin . |
| 22 | To diehards , Lloyd George was " the " Welsh Walpole " and friend of MacDonald who would peddle any opinion and give in to any Labour leader if it would help him to stay in office " . |
| 23 | PRESIDENT F W de Klerk last night announced the unconditional release of eight prominent political prisoners , notably Walter Sisulu , 77 , former secretary-general of the African National Congress and the closest political associate and oldest friend of Nelson Mandela , with whom he was jailed for life in 1964 . |
| 24 | In the afternoon , we visit a friend of Crilly 's from childhood . |
| 25 | Here he became a close friend of Rawdon Brown [ q.v. ] , the historian of the Venetian archives . |
| 26 | A close friend of Webb told me : ‘ It does n't look as though Neil has a future with United . |
| 27 | This included the short autobiographical novel Fenny Skaller , which a friend of Mackay called his ‘ confessions of life and love ’ . |
| 28 | They , guided by the strong impression in ‘ literary ’ circles that Chambers was an old bore and Fox was a non-starter , put up their own candidate , Lord David Cecil , a friend of Lewis 's , as it happened , and the English tutor at New College . |
| 29 | They would have been told , all of them , before they left Washington that he was a friend of Harry Lawrence . |
| 30 | She was the youngest in the family of three sons and two daughters of Horatio Walpole , third Earl of Orford , and his wife Mary , daughter of William Augustus Fawkener , envoy extraordinary at St Petersburg and close friend of Empress Catherine , and minister plenipotentiary in Lisbon and Florence . |