Example sentences of "friends and [noun pl] and [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lee , who took £11,486 from friends and customers and paid only £6,774 into an account over a 48week period , surrendered herself to police on the day she was due to pay the money out . |
| 2 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 3 | For this reason , Edwards ' indicators were designed to measure in various ways the extent to which speakers have contact with black friends and neighbours and participate in black social activities . |
| 4 | ’ But leaving Angola will be hard , leaving our Angolan friends and neighbours and starting a new life ’ , she said . |
| 5 | Hartley Coleridge was one of his devoted friends and admirers and said ‘ Of all landscape painters he was the most literal , the most absolute copyist of the objects on his retina . |
| 6 | In his acceptance speech Göncz made particular mention of leading opponents of the Soviet intervention of 1956 as his friends and mentors and promised that he would " serve the nation 's independence , free thought , the free word , the idea of free faith in a homeland , the defence of social justice which is fulfilled in human rights … [ and ] Hungarian democracy " . |