Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] friends for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 2 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 3 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 4 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 5 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 7 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 8 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 9 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 10 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 11 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 12 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 13 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 14 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |