Example sentences of "[be] friend for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave the Bookman a big hug and hoped they would be friends for a long , long time . |
| 2 | Alice was already thinking : Yes , tonight you 'd think we 'll all be friends for life , we could never harm each other , but it could all change , just like that ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd only met her once before that evening , but I feel we 'll be friends for life . ’ |
| 4 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 5 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 7 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 8 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 9 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 13 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They have worked together and have been friends for some time . |
| 16 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 17 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ What else are friends for ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ What are friends for ? ’ |
| 24 | After towing them back to their ship we were friends for life and the word soon went round the fleet . |
| 25 | The pair were friends for 65 years after meeting at New College , Oxford , and regularly telephoned each other with their latest jokes . |