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 | Andy reaches up for his big friend 's hand . |
| 9 | I was ‘ over the moon ’ , as Joe liked to say in imitation of his working-class friends ' picturesquely idiomatic Cockney . |
| 10 | 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 . |