Example sentences of "been friend [prep] " 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 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 4 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 5 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 6 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 10 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They have worked together and have been friends for some time . |
| 13 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 14 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 15 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If the Headmaster had discovered he had been friends with the Bookman all along , he was in deep , deep trouble . |
| 20 | David McKay had lived three cottages up and had been friends with their Pet . |
| 21 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Stephen had been friends with her then . |
| 27 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 28 | They had always been friends of mine , but I never wanted to defend their work . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was also established that the Jews had been friends of the inhabitants of Pergamum in the time of Abraham ( Ant . |