Example sentences of "a friend [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A friend lent me hers for a few weeks . |
| 2 | When a friend asked me the car 's name I answered at once — Anastasia Fyodorovna Romanova , Princess of all the Russias . |
| 3 | A few years ago a friend told me that he once started counting them . |
| 4 | The idea for this book began in the back of a taxi , the night a friend told me that a famous Scottish football manager had enjoyed rampant sex in a television studio with a well known TV presenter . |
| 5 | A friend told me recently that she no longer called herself a Christian . |
| 6 | Anyway , a friend told me that there was a band a long time ago , in the '60s , that had the same name . |
| 7 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 8 | ‘ A friend told me that the only adjective that describes the British is ‘ opaque ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're so lucky ! ’ a friend told me recently . |
| 10 | A friend says I 've got too many pensions . |
| 11 | A friend took me one summer on a tour of the Andean provinces . |
| 12 | A few weeks ago a friend took me back to Dieniolen , near Bangor . |
| 13 | or erm , anyway I 've got a friend help me |
| 14 | A FRIEND tells me of a post-electoral poster war which has broken out in his salubrious street in north Kensington , London , quite different in tone from the good-humoured gobbing on one another 's doorsteps which characterised neighbourly relations during the three weeks preceding the day that the revolution failed to dawn . |
| 15 | A friend collected me and whisked me away to a quieter part of the island . |
| 16 | A friend gave me a mini for scrap , but I immediately saw it as a hippo , so that 's what it became . |
| 17 | A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper , which immediately took on the status of security blanket . |
| 18 | This fact could not be concealed any more than I could conceal , when a friend invited me to stay with her during the holidays in Yorkshire , that my parents could n't afford the train fare . |
| 19 | A friend showed me this in the newspaper . |
| 20 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
| 21 | Volodya told a friend to tell me |
| 22 | A friend called me up who went to the City game , and he was raving about Leeds . |