Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] his friend " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Since you ask about the boy , ’ said Phil Jordan to his friend John Coffin , ‘ I will tell you . ’
2 He sold two Rothkos and one superb Jackson Pollock to his friend Edouard de Chavigny , and after that he never looked back .
3 On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later .
4 At home coaches were sometimes used to convey perishable goods : Alexander Pope sent two precious pineapples from his Twickenham hothouses to his friend , Ralph Allen at Prior Park , near Bath , using the coach from Turnham Green .
5 A letter from Thomas Gray to his friend Mason on 18 January expresses surprise that ‘ poor Smart is not dead as was said ’ .
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