Example sentences of "[was/were] a friend [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were a friend of the family , I believe ? ’ |
| 2 | Over the next two days , Harry cycled through Zutphen and Arnhem to Eindhoven , where a cafe owner gave him coffee and rolls , and a priest , who was a friend of the cafe proprietor advised Harry who was now headed for the Dutch/Belgian border . |
| 3 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 4 | The Princess Pauline Metternich , wife of the Austrian Ambassador , was a friend of the Empress and a frequent visitor at all the Imperial residences , but she preferred Fontainebleau because to her : |
| 5 | He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’ |
| 6 | He was a friend of the popular actor Bransby Williams and of one of the last great actor-managers , Sir John Martin-Harvey , both of whom bequeathed Eric a wealth of material relating to their own careers . |
| 7 | A dashing young bodyguard to the Queen who served in the Blues and Royal , he was a friend of the prince . |
| 8 | William Penn , a son of the admiral who captured Jamaica , was a friend of the Duke of York and had become a Quaker of the quieter second generation that followed George Fox in his beliefs but not in his attacks on all symbols of the established order . |
| 9 | Possibly he was a friend of the king and was therefore particularly favoured . |
| 10 | Mr. Morgan was a friend of the first defendant and had become acquainted with the deceased through the first defendant . |
| 11 | If there was any sign of a rastrellamento in the neighbouring villages or in our own , a carabiniere who was a friend of the family used to cycle over and warn her . |
| 12 | There are stories that he was a friend of the Plantagenet kings — you know , Richard Coeur de Lion , and John who lost the Crown Jewels … |
| 13 | The outspoken doctor was a friend of the late Ayatollah Khomenei . |
| 14 | Her husband was a friend of the Collector , she would make a complaint … |
| 15 | Not everyone was a friend of the de Hautevilles . |
| 16 | She said her name was Liz , she was a friend of the family , and she had done some nursing once , a long time ago , but gave it up to get married . |
| 17 | George , who was a friend of the Old Groaner for 25 years , will be talking about how Bing came to record White Christmas which became the world 's greatest hit even though Crosby was n't impressed by it at first . |
| 18 | McLean was described by the prosecution as a divorced alcoholic who was a friend of the dead woman . |
| 19 | His funeral was held at Our Lady and St Josephs at his wife Kerry 's request because the parish priest , Father Peter Burke , was a friend of the couple , who met on a trip to the French shrine of Lourdes where they were helping the sick . |
| 20 | In fact it was a pub down in Deptford , down by the Surrey Docks , where he was a friend of the landlord , using his back room as a base . |
| 21 | Yes , he said , there were equal rights for Lebanon 's 17 religious communities , freedom of expression for every man and woman be they Muslim or Christian ; it was a land where every man was a friend to the other without distinction . |
| 22 | Haines was a friend in the right place , ready to cut a few corners and pass on information while it was still worth having . |