Example sentences of "[pron] [be] friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want you to have it because it will mean that you and I are friends . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't mind waiting , ’ she told him politely and pleasantly , though she could n't resist adding , ‘ Rosemary and I are friends ; I have n't seen her for ages , so I thought I 'd ring up for a chat . ’ |
| 3 | Ca n't you believe me because I am Friend ? |
| 4 | Take him out to dinner , pour champagne down his throat , and later in the evening mention the little titbit that I 'm friends with the Finnish President . |
| 5 | No I do , I 'm friends with her , I do know her well . |
| 6 | I know , you see him , he 's walking and you see him , he 's going ruff , ruff and she 's going and I thought , no , man , I do n't care if I 'm friends with her no I 'm not going near her with the dog . |
| 7 | Susan and Luke and I were friends years ago : we lost touch not long before you and Luke came to know one another . ’ |
| 8 | Falconer — well , Giles , for he and I were friends — devised a scheme whereby one of our agents would use one of Paris 's most expensive whores to trap a leading member of the Luciferi . |
| 9 | ‘ Your mother and I were friends from our schooldays . |
| 10 | You do n't mind my being friends with Emily ? ’ |
| 11 | I was friends with him for a week and he was very eloquent . |
| 12 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 13 | And he will find all sorts of possible explanations for the choice of godparents who are friends of the non-Christian couple , equally non-religious and yet quite happy to vow that they will , in the name of the child , renounce the devil and all his works , the vain pomp and glory of the world , with all covetous desires of the same , and the carnal desires of the flesh , so that they will not follow , nor be led by them . |
| 14 | The actor Paul Blake and his wife Kate , who are friends of ours , have two young daughters and Abi and I found we really enjoyed their company . |
| 15 | Does the Minister recognise that those of us who are friends of Kenya have been concerned for some time that that country has been slipping from the flagship position of good and open government in Africa ? |
| 16 | ‘ I tell you what I really do n't like , ’ he says , staring down at the club floor below , ‘ I do n't like if I do n't know who are friends and who are enemies . |
| 17 | You are Friend — she studied the symbols of Friend 's identity with all that he meant to her of acceptance and caring , frightened that she was showing the nebulae of her longing for him too — but I can not read you perfectly . |
| 18 | There 's no need to hit me , I 'm you 're friend yo |
| 19 | You 're friends ? |
| 20 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 21 | I mean , you 're friends , are n't you ? |
| 22 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 23 | The next family to occupy Nelson House was the Linds , who were friends of my family . |
| 24 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 25 | The painting , which depicts a man wearing a bowler hat standing next to a pair of curtains which have been cut out to form the shape of the man , was painted in 1966 for the present ( American ) owner 's parents who were friends of the artist . |
| 26 | ‘ But you were friends even in those early days ? ’ |
| 27 | And who is Friend anyway ? |
| 28 | ‘ I thought she was friends with everybody . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes we are friends , we have known each other since we were both 12 years old and we do spend lots of time together , ’ she said . |
| 30 | ‘ We are friends . |