Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a [adj] friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I had a great friend at school who brought me here . |
| 2 | I had a good friend in Marius , who had been in the Swedish Army before joining the Legion . |
| 3 | It was fortunate that I had a good friend of my own age , also called Wanda : we relished being gloomy together . |
| 4 | " I do wish I had a Naughty Friend , " Nicandra spoke from the bottom of her heart as she lagged her way back to Dada and the sofa , bringing the red leather-bound book that had lain on top of other red leather-bound books piled one above the other on the lower shelf of a mahogany whatnot . |
| 5 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 6 | At the end of one term , one of them said she had a new friend called Lisa . |
| 7 | We had a mutual friend , an old lady , and we frequently met through her . |