Example sentences of "[vb past] been friends [prep] " 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 . |
| 10 | From this it may be judged that the Chauncys had been friends of the Blencowe family , and that a reference from Susanna Jennens carried weight with them . |
| 11 | It was also established that the Jews had been friends of the inhabitants of Pergamum in the time of Abraham ( Ant . |
| 12 | If the Headmaster had discovered he had been friends with the Bookman all along , he was in deep , deep trouble . |
| 13 | David McKay had lived three cottages up and had been friends with their Pet . |
| 14 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 15 | A Jewish woman Sarah had been friends with , before the war , used to say to her , ‘ When your children are young they tread on your feet . |
| 16 | It had been a bitter pill to swallow , and she had made her feelings plain to the man her husband had been friends with since his childhood . |
| 17 | Asked for her views on the exhibition , one elderly woman who had been friends with many of the Expressionists described it as ‘ both exciting and deeply moving ’ . |
| 18 | Stephen had been friends with her then . |
| 19 | The Davises had originally come from Grenada and the Carlsons had got to know them because their eldest child and Daryl had been friends at school . |
| 20 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |