Example sentences of "had [been] friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Headmaster had discovered he had been friends with the Bookman all along , he was in deep , deep trouble . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | David McKay had lived three cottages up and had been friends with their Pet . |
| 4 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 5 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 6 | They had been friends when he was grown up . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 11 | It was also established that the Jews had been friends of the inhabitants of Pergamum in the time of Abraham ( Ant . |
| 12 | Stephen had been friends with her then . |
| 13 | He had been friends while they talked in the spinney , and while they made the dam on the stream and read their paperbacked books after they 'd eaten their sandwiches . |
| 14 | The Davises had originally come from Grenada and the Carlsons had got to know them because their eldest child and Daryl had been friends at school . |
| 15 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 16 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 17 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 18 | It 's already heard that he and Greg Price had been friends . |