Example sentences of "[vb past] be friends for " in BNC.

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1 They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long .
2 We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’
3 There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely .
4 All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley .
5 ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow .
6 They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways .
7 She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years .
8 They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets .
9 They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls .
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