Example sentences of "been a friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss Fanshawe , this girl clearly could not have been a friend or neighbour at Eastover whom your parents were simply driving to London . |
| 2 | Coghill , who had been a friend since they read English together as undergraduates in 1923 , was now the English tutor at Exeter College . |
| 3 | He had been a friend of Lawrence of Arabia ; he knew Ottoline Morrell , at whose house Garsington Manor he had met Virginia Woolf , Bertrand Russell and D. H. Lawrence , among others . |
| 4 | Spike Milligan , the ex-Goon , who has been a friend for years , is a veteran anti-blood sports campaigner . |
| 5 | Its strong beat had been a friend beside his ear at night as he lay thinking , or when he woke to have a quiet smoke in the darkness . |
| 6 | Years before , in Paris , Brynner had been a friend of Cocteau 's and his opium dealer . |
| 7 | She had been a friend of Emily 's ; possibly her only friend ; but if Mr Zamoyski was right , she had not been generally liked . |
| 8 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 9 | He had been a friend of the Emperor since the two had first met in Rome in 1829 , a time when Malmesbury found him ‘ a wild harum-scarum youth apparently without a serious thought of any kind ’ , who enjoyed galloping through the streets at full tilt on a fine thoroughbred . |
| 10 | Michelle moved on and soon was to be seen around Los Angeles with Nicholson , who had been a friend for years . |
| 11 | I 've been a friend to thee ever since , have n't I , Midnight ? ’ |
| 12 | I contacted him because he had been a friend of the novelist and playwright , Patrick Hamilton , about whom I am writing a book . |
| 13 | Lord Carnarvon , 68 , has been a friend and confidant of the Queen since her single days . |
| 14 | I am a great admirer of longevity and Michael has been a friend and colleague for 32 years . |
| 15 | Sir John 's father had been a friend of Ruskin and the family collection contained several of his watercolours of Venice . |
| 16 | He boldly wrote to the King in defence of Anne Boleyn , who had been a friend to the Reformers , when she was to be executed on trumped-up charges . |
| 17 | It has been a friend for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | George Hamilton has been a friend for a long time ? |
| 19 | Charles Williams had been a friend of T. S. Eliot , but Lewis 's distrust of Eliot had been implacable , and their first meeting in 1945 , at Williams 's instigation , had been no better than guarded , though they later joined as Anglicans in retranslating the Book of Common Prayer version of the Psalter . |
| 20 | Closer to home , he found the work of the Swiss philosopher Franz Overbeck ( 1837–1905 ) , who had been a friend of Nietzsche . |
| 21 | IN A country where government has not always been a friend , it is little wonder that society has sometimes turned to the authorities of the underworld . |
| 22 | Mr Singh , a Kenyan Asian , confessed to me , after I had been a friend of the family for several years , that he was neither fluent in Swahili , the language of his education up to 13 , nor in Punjabi , his mother tongue . |
| 23 | He had been a friend and ally of the president for many years and had served as chief of staff when Reagan was governor of California . |
| 24 | The Gallic chief , Commius , who had been a friend and ally of Caesar , turned against him in the great revolt of Vercingetorix after the Roman invasion of 55 and 54 BC . |
| 25 | She has been a friend of WACC for the last 20 years . |
| 26 | Of course if Sarah had n't been a friend of the Princess of Wales the situation would have been far more difficult in the early stages . |
| 27 | André Leon Talley of American Vogue has been a friend since he headed the Womenswear Daily bureau in Paris in the Seventies . |
| 28 | The pope under whose jurisdiction he eventually fell , Urban VIII , had once been a friend and ally . |
| 29 | Crowe made known Lady Rose , who had been a friend of the Woolfs in their later years and was writing an elegant book on cats , and the fat and thin men , who were Vincent Hodgkiss , a philosopher , and Jeremy Norton , a poet . |
| 30 | More than that , he 'd been a friend , in a funny sort of way . |