Example sentences of "friend ['s] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All eight were rescued unharmed on Tuesday morning after an operation in which Mr Friend 's experience as rescue team captain helped to keep morale high . |
| 2 | In 87 ( ‘ Farewell — Thou art too dear for my possessing ’ ) the Friend 's inconstancy and betrayal are excused as a simple error of judgement : Here , though , Shakespeare is not content to let the irony stand , for the couplet , with its sarcastic double-rhyme , dispels both illusion and self-deception : ‘ Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter — /In sleep a king , but waking no such matter . ’ |
| 3 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
| 4 | I entirely support my hon. and learned Friend 's view that people should be afraid of the law and of being caught , but does he agree that boredom has played an important role in prison riots ? |
| 5 | I am now in Capt. Friend 's office and have only a short time to write before the post leaves . |
| 6 | He put his arm around his friend 's shoulder and grinned widely as they started off . |
| 7 | Cornelius put his arm around his friend 's shoulder and the two gazed off towards the lands of the east , wondering once more what the fates held in store for them . |
| 8 | a friend 's experience or anything like that ? |
| 9 | I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes — from Italy , ’ Rosemary replied , and Leith could clearly hear a smile in her friend 's voice as though it had cheered her so much to hear Travis . |
| 11 | I had always thought him to be egotistical and attention-seeking ; but apart from mentioning his invitation to the Dukakis Inaugural , he answered modestly , even humbly : praising his friend 's work and disparaging his own . |
| 12 | He had slept on a friend 's floor and spent a very uncomfortable night . |
| 13 | There are times when making a certain promise ( say to look after a friend 's child if the friend dies before the child comes of age ) are morally worthwhile but where one does not have an obligation to make them ( remember that in this example too one may find other adequate ways to help one 's friend ) . |
| 14 | She slid her fingers from her friend 's grasp and pulled herself up in the bed , a smile lighting up the ageing beauty of her face . |
| 15 | Martha , mesmerised by her friend 's ordeal and grateful to feel the guilt of her attack on Nana ebb away in this greater crisis , watched silently from the corner of the tiny room . |
| 16 | However , I do not accept my Hon. Friend 's contention that some of these matters must be discussed after 10 pm , but I am afraid that they will continue to have to be so . |
| 17 | I do not share my hon. Friend 's contention that one should support national wage bargaining . |
| 18 | I found out that my friend 's games , my friend 's games but he he 's lent it out to some |
| 19 | But she was left with a deep sense of hurt over her friend 's behaviour and had been unable to trust anyone since then . |
| 20 | I also share my hon. Friend 's regret that not every hon. Member appears to understand that . |
| 21 | I also share my hon. Friend 's regret that some people still seem to think that one can teach a national curriculum sensibly without testing children 's progress in an organised fashion . |
| 22 | I am delighted to respond to my hon. Friend 's invitation and I entirely agree with his remarks . |
| 23 | You can learn more about make-up from a quick snoop in a friend 's bathroom than you can from any other source . |
| 24 | Those of us who are citizens of the United Kingdom who live north of the border have benefited from my right hon. Friend 's sagacity and influence in the Cabinet and are vastly privileged by the statement that he has made today . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently visited my hon. Friend 's constituency and delivered a few home truths to the city council about its housing policy failures . |
| 26 | While learning at an RYA centre guarantees success , there will always be people who will learn on a friend 's board or prefer to buy a board and teach themselves . |
| 27 | You cut my friend 's hair and I 'll pay you . |
| 28 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 29 | ‘ I wo n't tell you my friend 's name because he would n't want people to make a fuss ’ . |
| 30 | Neil 's aunt Valerie Mason , of Millfields , said the boys had been riding a friend 's bike when they were involved in a collision with a car . |