Example sentences of "he [prep] a friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked him and trusted him as a friend who was valuable to her husband . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll always think of him as a friend , ’ she thought . |
| 3 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 4 | It is indeed strange that Anselm never referred the question to Ivo , bishop of Chartres : he knew him as a friend , but not apparently as the greatest authority on Canon Law in northern Europe . |
| 5 | Instead of barking and attacking him , though , the dogs greeted him as a friend . |
| 6 | It seemed that once people met him they decided they were better off having him as a friend than an enemy . |
| 7 | Hitherto , she 'd thought of him as a friend ; a kind friend , far above her station . |
| 8 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 9 | " I regard him as a friend , and you remember that apart from all this local colour , I gave you tile specifications of his boat . " |
| 10 | With deep blue eyes and springy fair hair , the athletic Dane would be the answer to many a maiden 's prayer , yet while Ashley was grateful to have him as a friend and business associate she had no inclination for their relationship to deepen . |
| 11 | At the moment , she just loves him as a friend . |
| 12 | he said I 'd , I 'd , I 'd , I 'd rather have , rather have him as a friend than an enemy |
| 13 | Lichfield council got the demand to him via a friend of the family near Lagos and a courier . |
| 14 | ‘ We inherited him from a friend of my mother . |
| 15 | ‘ We inherited him from a friend of my mother . |
| 16 | Channell introduced him to a friend , Ralph Hixon , ‘ a very devoted Christian ’ , and discreetly left them together to pray ; Channell watched a bit through the glass . |
| 17 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 18 | She was introduced to him by a friend who spoke of him with admiration . |
| 19 | Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix implied the document had been given to him by a friend . |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't want 'im as a friend of mine . ’ |