Example sentences of "[vb past] my [adj] friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the new girl became my best friend and has been ever since ( with a few eruptions ! ) because she is a very loyal , trustworthy , non-possessive , generous and kind girl . |
| 2 | I meant the hon. Gentleman , but he almost became my hon. Friend because of his grudging acceptance of the principle of testing . |
| 3 | And that 's why I got my two friends to come . |
| 4 | A couple of blocks away is John Smiths , where I met my old friend Robert Clow , in company with his number two , Willie Anderson , current treasurer of the BA . |
| 5 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to Mr. Martyn Rands , chairman of Basildon commuters ' club — and to his hard-working committee — who met my hon. Friend this morning and presented him with a petition , signed by 5,000 people in my constituency , complaining about the disgraceful service that they receive on the Fenchurch Street line ? |
| 6 | A few minutes ago the hon. Member for Bristol , East ( Mr. Sayeed ) attacked my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol , South ( Ms. Primarolo ) for being absent from the Chamber for the statement . |
| 7 | I asked my old friend , Ricci Burns . |
| 8 | Both sports were clearly popular and well-established traditions ; but when I asked my Indian friends about their survival in modern Delhi , they all shook their heads . |
| 9 | The Minister asked my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) to give her more evidence of evictions . |
| 10 | The Minister asked my hon. Friend to withdraw amendment ( a ) to new clause 6 which commits the Government to setting up a funding council for Scottish further education . |
| 11 | Councillor Bookbinder was his opponent at the last election , if I am not mistaken , and I am sure that he at least doubled my hon. Friend 's majority . |
| 12 | The talk , in lurid detail , of filth and porn and how excruciatingly disgusting it all was , made my broad-minded friend feel nauseated and he left . |
| 13 | One night in March I visited my old friend at his home in Baker Street . |
| 14 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently visited my hon. Friend 's constituency and delivered a few home truths to the city council about its housing policy failures . |
| 15 | I recently travelled on the Kent rail service and visited my hon. Friend 's constituency with him . |
| 16 | One enterprising young man gathered 60 ration books into his brief-case and persuaded an RCAF pilot , due for a recognizance flight that day , to fly him several hundred miles across the provincial border to Atlin , B.C. At the friendly invitation of those concerned I went along for the ride and helped my energetic friends load five cases of Johnny Walker , which we transported back to Whitehorse well in time for a Saturday night party . |
| 17 | I told my best friend to start with , and she said " For God 's sake , I 'll book you in down the doctors . " |
| 18 | Is it not a fact that on 3 July last year the Minister of State told my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian ( Mr. Home Robertson ) that the recruitment figures for individual battalions in Scotland would not be released on the ground of security , yet when it suited the Secretary of State 's purpose , he was prepared to release figures showing 67 per cent . |
| 19 | As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) , we do not need to raise taxes ; the Labour party does . |
| 20 | Although there were more than 100 British nationals killed in the accident there was no provision at that time for a State with such an interest to participate , but knowing that the minister was bound to be asked by MPs in the House what arrangements there were for investigating the cause of death of so many UK citizens I telephoned my old friend Michel Vigier in paris with a formal request that we might send a UK observer . |
| 21 | In the end I contacted my good friend Tom Poulton of the Tropical Marine Centre , Exeter , on the basis that I am at least a customer of his , albeit mainly for fish rather than equipment . |
| 22 | I am more than happy to pay tribute to those gallant and courageous civil servants who led or followed my hon. Friend on that exciting detour on the continent . |
| 23 | While I am on my feet , perhaps I may apologise for referring in an earlier answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North when I meant my hon. Friend the Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth ( Mr. Dickens ) , who made the suggestion . |
| 24 | But then I learned my new friends took drugs , and I began to take drugs , too . |
| 25 | I understand the reply that you gave my Hon. Friend the Member for Walsall , North ( Mr. Winnick ) , but is it not possible to ask the Leader of the House , who is present , when we will have a statement about Mr. Rushdie and the ayatollah 's decision ? |
| 26 | The answer that he gave my hon. Friend the Member for Dover ( Mr. Shaw ) and the answer that he has just given have comprehensively shot a number of foxes , but one is still up and running . |
| 27 | Adding that he would not allow himself to be intimidated , he pointed out ’ — as did my hon. Friend the Member for Dewsbury — ’ that legal proceedings were pending against ten of the twelve EC countries for failure to respect EC rules on the assessment of large-scale works . ’ |
| 28 | I answered my hon. Friend 's question about how many payments were made to practices — where list size criterion limited payment — saying that I did not know the answer . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ answered my Luggnuggian friend with a smile , ‘ we 'll be delighted if you stay longer with us . |
| 30 | I wanted my old friend to be there ; I prayed for nothing to have changed . |