Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a friend [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I had a friend who 'd write to me . |
| 2 | I had a friend who had one of those ancient slide machines which was used to give light shows , and you could make the slides out of coloured oils and inks and put them together between two sheets of glass and when they 're heated up inside the machine , they went , splat , splat , and made these rather beautiful moving colours . |
| 3 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 4 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 5 | I had a friend who could be described as fearless . |
| 6 | I had a friend who was also interested in birds of prey , and we 'd thought that we 'd buy one each and keep them both at his place . |
| 7 | I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore . |
| 8 | I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support . |
| 9 | It was an old car , but I had a friend who worked in an engineering factory and he fiddled with it till it could go quite fast . |
| 10 | I had a friend who worked for the oil people , and I decided to stay after a visit to this place . |
| 11 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 12 | I had a friend who had long hair and she , she let it grow right the way through . |
| 13 | In the Post Office while I was trying to phone Prague , Irena was getting free phone calls in exchange for correcting a German text for the manager , and when we went to a bookshop she had a friend who sold her books at half price . |
| 14 | She had a friend who kept them caseless in huge straw baskets and crunched the loose cases to bits , muttering ‘ Oh , shit ’ as he wandered through to a five-by-eight foot kitchen where nine wires ran from the central lightbulb . |
| 15 | He said he had a friend who had a great interest in grandfather clocks . |
| 16 | Then , when I was eleven , he had a friend who owned a music store and he talked him into letting me work Saturdays . |
| 17 | One panel member explained he had a friend who was handy with a bit of wood and some nails — why did n't WNKER insert a new shelf in between the existing shelves , thus doubling the CD capacity ? |
| 18 | However , to the rescue comes their driver , an enterprising Swiss chap who announced that they were not to worry , he had a friend who lived nearby who could help them out . |