Example sentences of "friend the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular treatment of your dog and your home with a suitable insecticide is all that 's required , so it 's no more than you should already be doing to control our old friend the flea ! |
| 2 | Accompanied by his close friend the German geographer Hermann von Wissmann , he set out from the port of Mukalla and visited the cities of Shibam , Saywun and Tarim , closely studying the society and minutely describing the topography , geology , flora and fauna of the valley . |
| 3 | In the small church across the way there is the most beautiful stained glass window that John Piper ever designed , celebrating his friend the Poet Laureate who worshipped here and lived in this well-loved rectory . |
| 4 | Cecil 's most popular publication was his life of his friend the Rev.John Newton ( 1725–1807 ) ; in the preface he writes that his decision to undertake this work arose |
| 5 | They included the former Communist , Alfred Sherman ( whom she later recommended for a knighthood ) ; Paul Johnson , one-time editor of the New Statesman ; and her close friend the former Labour MP and News of the World columnist , Woodrow Wyatt . |
| 6 | When he heard of a Kaiser talking in an after-dinner speech about ‘ my friend the Sultan ’ he was astonished , and could have rent his garments . |
| 7 | When I left home , I thought , in my pride , that I should be sufficient unto myself , like my friend the cat . |
| 8 | Leapor offers to her friend the choice which Pope applauded in Martha Blount . |
| 9 | And it was not a diver , but our landlubbing friend the oceanographer , who discovered this . |
| 10 | The role of social relations is obvious in the massive US Animal Welfare Act 1966 which applies to warm-blooded animals , thereby excluding my friend the octopus . |
| 11 | He was an open supporter of the Covenant and when he visited his friend the blacksmith , he was on his way to join a band of Covenanters about to confront a party of Dragoons . |
| 12 | My friend the builder ( I met him , once , and he was ever such a nice bloke ) had been most creative in his choice of rubble . |
| 13 | The previous generic name for many of them , Heros , was at the same time restricted to our old friend the Severum , so that can not be used . |
| 14 | The band ( all sons of Gabby Pahinui , the late folk hero and master of Hawaiian slack-key guitar who contributed to Cooder 's ‘ Chicken Skin Music ’ back in 1975 ) have put together a collection of traditional songs interspersed with some surprising covers , including Lennon 's Jealous Guy and Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues . |
| 15 | Somebody re-mixed You 're My Best Friend the other day and I always thought it would be nice to re-balance that stuff , but when we got the tape out , it was all on one track , so that 's it . ’ |
| 16 | Questioned more closely on how he gets his sound — for instance , the mind-boggling tone for the slide solo on the Pahinuis ' versh of Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues — it becomes more and more apparent that the unassuming , virtually ego-free Mr. Cooder is far happier discussing musicians other than himself … |
| 17 | This is not to be confused with our old friend the ‘ lazy eight ’ ( as illustrated in Fig 5.3 ) described earlier . |
| 18 | This is where our old friend the ‘ idle up ’ switch comes in handy again . |
| 19 | THE Queen and the Princess of Wales are to be the guests at Saturday 's wedding of the princess 's close friend the Hon Harry Herbert when he marries Chica Bevan at Highclere Castle , the seat of his father , the Queen 's racing manager the Earl of Carnarvon . |
| 20 | A year later William Titford , our old friend the undertaker from Wylye in Wiltshire , would be buried in the St Pancras Cemetery at East Finchley . |
| 21 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 22 | They gave each other presents at the Hanukha-Christmas festival , and the rector showed me his latest gift , a book with the inscription ‘ To my friend the rector , from his friend , the rabbi ’ . |
| 23 | An example would be where someone else takes charge of the vehicle to such a degree that he will not resume control of the vehicle , such as where he gives his friend the ignition key and a taxi is ordered to take him home . |
| 24 | This is merely a variant of our friend the stress concentration which governs so much of engineering and materials science . |
| 25 | In the meantime , here are some tips for using our old friend the male condom . |
| 26 | Incidentally , our friend the timing device is still ticking merrily away . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Slow but steady — slow , because the presence of what the Admiral calls your friend the timing device does have a rather inhibitory effect and we 're probably taking some quite needless precautions as far as acoustic levels are concerned . |
| 28 | In this Presidential Election Year , Pam could well treat the campaign trail once again for her friend the President . |
| 29 | Our friend the kingfisher apparently possesses computational mechanisms which can discover the real position of a fish at varying depths in the water . |
| 30 | In celebrating the Friend the Poet is celebrating himself and his own power : Here again Shakespeare has personalized the Friend while depersonalizing the Poet . |