Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adj] friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 2 | All too quickly , he was back in Fagin 's house , where his old friends were waiting for him . |
| 3 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 4 | He was rather vague about that , so my Hon. Friend asked him more questions . |
| 5 | Mr Lawson responded pleasantly : ‘ I am glad that my honourable friend raised that issue because , although it is an absurdity , it is believed by many people other than my honourable friend , who understandably picks up things that he hears other people say . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , the Ramblers Association has gone further than my hon. Friend has suggested in connection with that line , and has stated that , if British Rail increases the speed on a line , it will also be reducing the safety on it . |
| 7 | I could not pay a more eloquent testimony to the doctor than my hon. Friend has just paid . |
| 8 | Now , I was more readily accepted by my black friends than my white friends . |
| 9 | Although my hon. Friend makes persuasive and powerful arguments , I can not accept that they are convincing reasons for moving the line . |
| 10 | Although my hon. Friend is right to say that budget-holding practices have been outstandingly successful and are now very popular with most doctors — |
| 11 | Although my hon. Friends the Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) and for Basildon and I had certain concerns about the overall reorganisation proposed — my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay and I expressed them very forcefully , as my hon. Friend the Minister knows — we took exactly the same line as the community health council on the centralisation of casualty . |
| 12 | For the past year or so , all hon. Members except my hon. Friends on the Front Bench have sung from the same hymn book about decommissioning . |
| 13 | Peeling potatoes and worrying how best to retain their vitamin C , Scarlet has plenty of time to worry about other things , such as why she is so much more timid than her best friend Constance and what she can do to improve relations between her dour , monotonic husband and Camille , her daughter from her first marriage . |
| 14 | A second body was the Protestant Dissenting Deputies which had been founded in 1732 and was , by the end of the nineteenth century , healthier than its older friend although The Christian World noted in 1901 that it ‘ seems to have fallen on evil days ’ . |
| 15 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 16 | You are all alone ; no one will interfere ; in a college no one helps your studies ( although your best friend may do the opposite and interfere by dropping in for a chat ) . |
| 17 | If my hon. Friend has not yet sent me details of the company in his constituency , I hope that he will do so . |
| 18 | If my hon. Friend wants to hear them , I shall be more than happy to tell him afterwards . |
| 19 | I am sure that if my hon. Friend maintains his position with his normal consistency , the day will come when the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) will join him yet again in that view . |
| 20 | If my hon. Friend will forgive me , I shall not trail that in advance . |
| 21 | If my hon. Friend will look at the recommendations already coming from the Boundary Commission , she will see that it recommends that there should be eight rather than seven seats in Dorset . |
| 22 | I should be delighted if my hon. Friend 's constituents would care to drop me a note with information on their individual salaries . |
| 23 | If my hon. Friend will be patient , I think that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment will shortly have some comments which will please him . |
| 24 | If my hon. Friend has a chance to visit any of the executive agencies , as I do , he will be very impressed by the way that they are tackling their tasks . |
| 25 | To take the latter point first , if my hon. Friend looks at many , perhaps all , of the Maxwell pension fund trustee bodies , he will find that they were split 50 : 50 — there was employee representation . |
| 26 | If my hon. Friend has any evidence that other countries might not be implementing the regulations as carefully as we are , we shall certainly take action . |
| 27 | If my hon. Friend will forgive me , I must resume my speech . |
| 28 | If my hon. Friend can make a case , we shall have to think about the issue . |
| 29 | I hope that if my hon. Friend the Minister has time he will deal with those points in replying to the debate . |
| 30 | I am confident that if my hon. Friend the Minister wants to do this , he can . |