Example sentences of "his [adj] friend ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | That their friendship endured explains why next day Seth showed up at his old friend 's house , grinning , freshly showered and dressed , barely able to stand . |
2 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
3 | Daniel asked suddenly , as though reading his old friend 's thoughts . |
4 | He took his old friend 's hand . |
5 | Finally , does the Secretary of State accept that , no matter how much money he tries to throw around now , he will not save his hon. Friends ' necks ? |
6 | Where does an artist like Kafka come from ? he typed , squinting at his erstwhile friend 's crumpled manuscript . |
7 | ‘ We have always been a very tired family , ’ Finch said loftily to Henry , both aged twenty-eight , Finch lying back in a large bed with his cello on his ex-girl friend 's pillow and Henry standing up by the gas fire . |
8 | It also contains in the character of Colonel Calloway , the world-weary Englishman responsible for alerting the innocent American writer of pulp novels to his former friend 's evil doings , a perfect symbol of Britain 's position after the Second World War , standing in the middle between battered Europe and gung-ho America . |
9 | Andy reaches up for his big friend 's hand . |
10 | His life becomes even more complicated though when he starts to fall in love with his best friend 's lover and learns that his ex-wife is about to publish an expose of their marriage . |
11 | OWEN MEANY is a boy who kills his best friend 's mother with a baseball , and decides he is an instrument of God . |
12 | ‘ I am out , ’ Stephen said , not moving from his best friend 's own armchair in Dulwich . |
13 | I was ‘ over the moon ’ , as Joe liked to say in imitation of his working-class friends ' picturesquely idiomatic Cockney . |
14 | Hollywood was scared , not simply because of the threat to personal life and limb , but by the implications being meted out in the press which followed two distinct inferences : first that Polanski through his and his dead friends ' involvement with drugs had brought this tragedy upon his own house , and , second , that the ‘ new ’ Hollywood in general must accept some guilt through its current fascination with violence , drugs , sex and the lifestyle of what appeared — in the eyes of the establishment — to be a mortally sick section of society . |