Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore offer readers an extract of my elder friend 's memoirs , taken from the book which his daughter Aliki Costakis and I are currently preparing for publication . |
| 2 | She asked me if any of my other friends knew , which they did n't , and she encouraged me to tell them , saying that if she was the last one in the circle then all the others should know . |
| 3 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 4 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 5 | I 'm very ashamed to say that most of my close friends , probably all of my close friends , are in the industry . |
| 6 | I 'm very ashamed to say that most of my close friends , probably all of my close friends , are in the industry . |
| 7 | I was busy and happy all that time , relying greatly on the help and encouragement of my dear friend Miss Temple . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the funeral of my dear friend , Lauengram , ’ he said , in answer to our question . |
| 9 | I knew I must soon arrange the memorial party , and the perfect opportunity arose with a letter from one of my closest friends , Margo , now living in Australia , who was planning a trip to Europe with her husband later that summer . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't look quite so much like myself any more , ’ one of my closest friends told me about her decision to colour her grey . |
| 11 | ‘ This very night , three of my closest friends have — in supposedly unconnected incidents-met with a violent fate . |
| 12 | Cash and I go way , he 's one of my oldest , one of my closest friends . |
| 13 | Nor must I omit a dozen or so Turkish friends , whose friendship I was able to resume years later , above all Aziz and Ulviye Isvar and my closest Turkish friend — indeed one of my closest friends — Naci Ortaç , whose wife was the daughter of a Grand Vizier . |
| 14 | ‘ Some of my closest friends are homosexuals . |
| 15 | I finger the necklace often these days as I think of my many friends in that country . |
| 16 | It was hard to leave , too , because the parents of my good friend Henry Clerval would not let him go to university with me . |
| 17 | You will meet lots of my good friends . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't want to lose any of my good friends . |
| 19 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 20 | Some of my good friends here say to me , ‘ We 're all for what MRA is doing — in fact , you 're preaching to the converted — all except this God bit . ’ |
| 21 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |
| 22 | Finally , now that glasnost has arrived , I am happy to acknowledge the collaborative assistance throughout of my Soviet friends Sergei Rozanov , Victor Surkov and Masha Barash . |
| 23 | as if guessing the trend of his sister 's thoughts , Aubrey said suddenly , ‘ One of my great friends , Harry Keynes , is coming over from the United States next week , Dunbar . |
| 24 | Two-thirds of my male friends have got married , and the rest of us just sit around in the pub all weekend . |
| 25 | Well it w was n't , it were n't was n't mine , one of my nice friends was it ? |
| 26 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 27 | As a postscript to this , I can say in all sincerity : ‘ Some of my best friends are Gentiles . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |
| 29 | ‘ Many of my best friends are undertakers ! ’ |
| 30 | As little as possible , but some of my best friends love it , so it depends on them . |