Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only discovered that late as well when I became friends with John at college . |
| 2 | ‘ I fail to see the relevance of this , but yes , I should say that Glastonbury and I became friends . |
| 3 | I became friends with Juliet , , because she understood me , + I could talk to her about my opinions quite openly : she is very understanding in that way . |
| 4 | I 'm not really sure how I became friends with the boy , but he also has quite a good personality , + I can have a good laugh with him . |
| 5 | I asked friends , over a cup of tea . |
| 6 | I made friends with a girl in a similar plight : Sophie had twin boys the same age as Tom , and her husband , Jack , ex-R.A.F. with a handlebar moustache , was working for his exams in chartered accountancy . |
| 7 | The third month I spent in Brittany at Sable d'Or ; there I made friends with an elderly , bearded fisherman called Pierre . |
| 8 | Anyway , I 'll go back a bit + explain how I made friends with Sarah . |
| 9 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 10 | " I mean friends of my own age . " |
| 11 | it 's not that , it 's , it 's next door but not only that I mean friends , my friends I mean |
| 12 | She and I were always friends , and David and I remain friends . |
| 13 | She refused me the pavillon for a while because she discovered that in the evenings I met friends in town . |
| 14 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 15 | It depends on your lifestyle you live , though , cos I got friends who are just like ah , I do n't like and you have to excuse my hairy legs running or something , I mean , I just like they 're like this , and they 've got like black hair about this long , and I 'm like oh my God , oh my God , you 're just like |
| 16 | Can I bring friends home ? |
| 17 | In the evening , I meet friends at the Devonshire for a drink . |
| 18 | ‘ I know friends think I 'm a bit outdated in my thinking but I do n't understand women who just live with men . |
| 19 | But I did all the work of a Queen and I needed friends too . |
| 20 | I invite friends and family often , and the company is important to me . |
| 21 | I pitied friends who were married , had children , were tied . |
| 22 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 23 | ‘ That where I live friend , ’ I told him . |
| 24 | As a result , when I did Friends or War I had to make sure there was a distance between them , because they are about completely different subjects . |
| 25 | My friends , or people I call friends , are n't really close . |
| 26 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 27 | I had friends there but I used to just start crying before I was due to go . ’ |
| 28 | When the boys were in bed , Richard and I had friends in : we ate supper in the kitchen , by candlelight . |
| 29 | And I was fortunate in that I had friends — musical and artistic — who knew so much more about these subjects than I did , and enjoyed sharing their knowledge with me . |
| 30 | I had friends there who could help me to sell my land in Brazil , and I needed the money . |