Example sentences of "been friends " 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 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 4 | They had always been friends of mine , but I never wanted to defend their work . |
| 5 | If the Headmaster had discovered he had been friends with the Bookman all along , he was in deep , deep trouble . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | David McKay had lived three cottages up and had been friends with their Pet . |
| 8 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 9 | ‘ One good turn deserves another , you know , and we 've been friends long enough to act neighbourly , have n't we , Albert ? ’ |
| 10 | As Henry signs the new treaty at the French court , the camera moves in to a close-up as he recalls the faces of the people who have been friends to him in more dissolute days , and have now followed him into battle . |
| 11 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |
| 12 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 13 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 14 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 15 | Also there 's been friends and people around me that have helped make things easier . |
| 16 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 17 | They had been friends when he was grown up . |
| 18 | I think we would have been friends . |
| 19 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
| 20 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 21 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 22 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 27 | The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When I think how long we 've been friends … |
| 30 | They have worked together and have been friends for some time . |