Example sentences of "friend [conj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 If we are to take this speech as accurate reportage within the conventions of deathbed narratives , is there not something a little remarkable in Leapor 's assuring her friend and patron that she has always loved her father , though never so much as now , when she is dying ?
2 And then at the end of the day not everybody has even friends or neighbours that they 'd want to impose on ?
3 Well , I 'm a bit of toucher myself and I , I do n't mind if it 's friends or family or someone I 'm keen on
4 Club together with your friends or family and you can cut the cost of your holiday .
5 The weary sighs from friends and associates as they replace the telephone receiver after yet another call from the maestro have become somewhat more pronounced .
6 This group of people was recognised by the meeting in Tokyo over a year ago , and this is an issue that many people — both my friends and strangers that I come across in collecting or canvassing for Amnesty — ask me about .
7 You should tell your friends and relatives that they should not ‘ phone you at work unless it is about something important which can not wait .
8 Venturing to the second stage , they could have their names and homelands recorded on a list published the follow ing day in Le Figaro de la Tour Eiffel certain proof to less privileged friends and relatives that they had indeed visited this engineering marvel — or could pen lines of poetry for inclusion in the same journal .
9 Please encourage class members , their photographic friends and relatives or anyone else wishing to snap subject matter in class .
10 Six men had bled to death there in the snow or in the arms of friends and relatives as they carried them home .
11 He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing .
12 She should be introduced with an air of pride and affection to your friends and neighbours if she does not know them already , accompanied to all the places locally which will be of special interest to her in the future : the public library , the shopping centre , the best places to go for morning coffee , and any small parks where she might like to walk or sit in the fine weather .
13 Police say they 'll be easily recognised by friends and neighbours and they must be caught before someone is killed .
14 Police say they 'll be easily recognised by friends and neighbours and they must be caught before someone is killed .
15 When yo , people just gather informally , and friends and neighbours and you make music and you sing songs , you tell stories , play instruments , do what you like , eat , drink talk .
16 There is a time when they are expected to be looked after by family , friends and neighbours because they are too overcome to cope by themselves .
17 its , it 's , it 's the same Saturdays and Sundays , I ca n't get him out of the house and yet soon as we get there we have friends and family and they say , keep saying come on , come up and see us , I went up in the mini on me own one day and spent a couple of days with her , but , it , it ai n't the same when you go on your own , I dare n't go too far in my mini because it 's , it 's erm , it 's not a car that you can be hundred per cent sure of it , I mean as soon as it rains it stops anyway , we went out in it today and there 's all water in the front of the , in the front , but
18 She took up the pastime after impressing friends and family when she made an engagement cake for her brother-in-law .
19 In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being .
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