Example sentences of "be [pron] friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh Rose , please , please be my friend . |
| 2 | And he 's crazy enough to be my friend . |
| 3 | I just feel , ‘ God , hurry up and grow up , kids , and talk to me and be my friend . ’ |
| 4 | Would Friday still be my friend , or would his people kill me and eat me ? |
| 5 | Would you please be my friend ? ’ she whispered to the robin . |
| 6 | I opened it cautiously , only a crack , just in case it might not be my friend though I could think of no one else who would be here at this time of night . |
| 7 | Anna says : " But will you still be my friend ? |
| 8 | ‘ But if you make another monster to be my friend , we wo n't hurt anyone . |
| 9 | He is not there to be my friend . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you were supposed to be my friend … ? ’ |
| 11 | Come on , be my friend . |
| 12 | Quite a few people want to be her friend . |
| 13 | Strange that in a way he would like to be her friend even more than her lover . |
| 14 | And anyway , I was so overwhelmed by her mother , who was so sweet to me , that I wanted to be her friend . |
| 15 | The other was a middle-aged woman , also Italian , who seemed to be her friend . |
| 16 | I was allowed to be her friend . |
| 17 | Running her tongue over her lips , she said huskily , ‘ You 're supposed to be her friend ! ’ |
| 18 | Phyllisia had seen this girl called Marian , she wanted to be her friend because she was perfect and her father would have been impressed , but when she approached her , Marian snubbed Phyllisia . |
| 19 | It is almost as though one has to pass a test to be their friend . |
| 20 | All she wanted was to be their friend , but they responded by ridiculing her . |
| 21 | You can go out with them , share food and drink with them … you can still be their friend . |
| 22 | Emma : Publicity 's a tiger which can turn and rend The man who thought it once to be his friend . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |
| 24 | Only the wrong kind of boy comes forward to be his friend ; the right kind are just the ones who hang back . ’ |
| 25 | To be his friend , the boy would have Diniz , who would think him his cousin , and who would grow to gentle manhood in the vineyards of Portugal , and honour Tristão his father . |
| 26 | In this one the ugly old lady with birds turned out to be his friend . |
| 27 | And Mrs Sowerberry was his enemy because Mr Sowerberry was supposed to be his friend . |
| 28 | I shall say I feel differently towards him , that I want to be his friend and lameduck him in London . |
| 29 | And he feared it would be his friend 's body . |
| 30 | I may he may I may have died in the end but still , you know he wanted to keep the peace and wanted to be his friend . |