Example sentences of "of his friends [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were those friends to suffer humiliation , it would be seen as a defeat for the political interest to which they belonged , and if the politician had attempted to avoid a commitment , that abstention would merely add the resentment of his friends to the consequences of the defeat . |
| 2 | A request which Sir Ludovick Grant of Grant received from one of his friends for the removal of a revenue officer to another port stated the case quite frankly : |
| 3 | He suddenly thought of using it to play a joke on some of his friends at the Post , concealed it in his newspaper and left the pub . |
| 4 | Similar impressions are obtained from other examples of this type : ( 22 ) He did not want to be alone , and had expected to find some of his friends at the bar . |
| 5 | He saw one of his friends at the other end of the road . |
| 6 | He wanted to read philosophy but the university refused him ; so did the cinema school and the drama faculty ( though to the amused admiration of his friends in the theatre , he did eventually attend , as a student , after the successful opening of The Garden Party , and when he had already completed his best play , The Memorandum ( which remains probaby his most effective play ) . |
| 7 | A tap on the glass heralded one of his friends in the uniformed branch . |
| 8 | In 1534 William Tyldesley advised Lord Lisle that the best means of getting a favourable answer to his requests would be a letter to some of his friends in the Privy Chamber or to the Lord Chamberlain . |
| 9 | But he 'd be wise to leave the rest to be taken at leisure , and make positive use of his friends in the Lothians . |
| 10 | And after last night 's performance of Hamlet , some of his friends from the theatre had come back with him for an informal reading of their next play . |
| 11 | Each of his friends around the table , he realizes , is surrounded with a kind of aura . |