Example sentences of "friend have [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 2 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 3 | Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him . |
| 4 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 5 | A petrol station assistant and her friend have been held up at knifepoint . |