Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adj] friends " in BNC.
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| 1 | All too quickly , he was back in Fagin 's house , where his old friends were waiting for him . |
| 2 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 3 | Now , I was more readily accepted by my black friends than my white friends . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If your true friends know that you are a Christian , sooner or later they will want to know something about your faith . |
| 8 | Well , yes , I did know ; it was because my Russian friends would be there . |
| 9 | And when I say average , I include all of us , ’ declares the comedienne-turned-crusader , while her famous friends — and now , her supporters — nod in agreement . |
| 10 | To fool the killers , he ‘ played dead ’ while his two friends were shot in the back of the head . |
| 11 | There were connections there , safe houses where he could hole up for a week or more , while his American friends made arrangements to get him out of the country and into free Europe . |
| 12 | I would go further I am not sure whether my Hon. Friends presented such an amendment but it was not called and ask that such a consultative committee comprise a large number of women bus users . |
| 13 | Continental Airlines again came to the rescue and flew it to the U.S. after our Australian friends had taken it apart . |
| 14 | He is , as my Irish friends would say ‘ a broth of a boy ’ . |
| 15 | There is no truth that er ministers intend to withdraw from the I L O or to seek an opportunity to do so and despite T U C criticism , as I said earlier , we believe that our policies comply with all the I L O conventions which we 've ratified and as my honourable friends have pointed out , our overriding objective is to ensure the maintenance of continuous operations at G C H Q which is vital to the protection of national security . |
| 16 | But I do agree as far as my two friends are concerned . |
| 17 | I watched as my veiled friends chatted busily to each other or rose to greet some relative , touching burgah to burgah , then fluttered down again like so many birds of paradise . |
| 18 | can I say that as long as the integrity of each religion is preserved , then education is a very sound er erm is very sound in prospect , but sadly it has become a melting pot and as my Noble Friends like to refer to it a mish-mash and I do n't think it does anything more than serve to confuse children if it 's done badly . |
| 19 | However , as my hon. Friends the Members for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) and for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) have strayed into the area of transport , and as the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) got as far as Yugoslavia , I feel that I , too , can stray a little from the main theme of the debate without attracting too much criticism . |
| 20 | As my hon. Friends have said , that is absolute rubbish . |
| 21 | As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre ( Mr. Mans ) and for Thurrock have said , people expected to be protected by central Government , but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending . |
| 22 | I should have thought that the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury , as much as my hon. Friends , would strongly support that . |
| 23 | Tragically , as my hon. Friends have said , the image that is portrayed is still one of the smoker being chic or macho . |
| 24 | As my hon. Friends have said , the original calculations were made by the Inland Revenue and had nothing to do with the borough of Newham . |
| 25 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 26 | There were other people there , he had been demoted to the same rank as her many friends . |
| 27 | There , the terrified woman could only watch as her three friends were forced to strip in the glare of the Pathfinder 's headlights . |
| 28 | A YOUNG couple scrambled out of a blazing car 's hatchback as their two friends died in the front seats . |
| 29 | Because of modern methods of food preparation and presentation , and the trend to make foods more appealing by adding saturated fat and refined sugar , slim people as well as their weightier friends are likely to be eating too rich a diet . |
| 30 | When their big friends get stuck into close combat the Snotlings throw themselves on the enemy , screaming and yelling crazily , waving their wooden clubs and biting the foes with their sharp teeth . |