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Example sentences of "[pron] friends " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year .
2	This particular girl , a model , is putting Patrick in his place by going on about cars : ‘ Most of my friends have them on the firm , ’ she said , with the sort of lift of the old proud head that he could hardly believe had not accompanied a limiting judgment on Villiers de l'Isle Adam . ’
3	We are in the presence of very great evil , my friends , and the little grey cells must not be denied . ’
4	‘ My friends , ’ he said , ‘ you will regret this very much . ’
5	‘ Eh bien , my friends , ’ he said , brushing a crumb of cheese straw from the lapel of his immaculately pressed suit , ‘ it is time to make the beginning .
6	It must be pointed out before we go any further that my friends in Harwich had a rather distorted picture of my life in that they only ever saw the best of me .
7	They had become my friends and there was no way that I would now go back to being their problem dependant .
8	I have a lovely plant of Rosa glauca which is often admired by my friends .
9	I have always relied on the kindness of my friends .
10	But do n't despair , my friends .
11	Neither I , nor my friends who borrow them , have any cause for complaint .
12	Enigma Variations Ashtons interpretation of Elgar 's ‘ My friends pictured within' ( The Royal Ballet )
13	My home is a shrine to them and a talking point for my friends , who think I 'm completely nuts .
14	It 's to be found in From the Life ( 1944 ) : one hundred sheets of wartime austerity paper to which Phyllis Bottome commits ‘ six studies of my friends ’ — that 's to say , Alfred Adler , Max Beerbohm , Ivor Novello , Sara Delano Roosevelt , Ezra Pound , and Margaret MacDonald Bottome ( this last the writer 's American grandmother who in her forties became an influential evangelical orator ) .
15	A lot of my friends are pleased that the company is doing the job they are doing .
16	Many of my friends are preparing to leave . ’
17	Two had their limbs cut off , including one of my friends .
18	He was one of my friends of the French Commando who were attached to No. 4 Commando .
19	I looked around to my right , Chauvet , one of my friends of French Commando , was leaning against the side of the truck , a large smile on his face .
20	At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured .
21	All my friends had been transformed , their faces shone , they could n't move , while I just rolled my tie up and down and counted the bars on the radiator .
22	When I had completed a two hour programme my friends came to my home and we saw it together .
23	This monolith sat atop an escarpment which accommodated the raking of the auditorium and the levelled hardcore of a car park , and cast its long shadow over an adjacent bit of parkland , a cosy corner of scrub , stream and wood that drew me and my friends to it like a magnet .
24	When I lived in Dublin at the end of the Second World War , one of my friends was an obsessive film buff whose dramatic recall , frame by frame , of scenes such as the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin or the final chase in Fritz Lang 's M often hypnotized even the drunks in the bars we frequented .
25	It was like finding my own identity by finding something different to like , something different to what all my friends liked .
26	My friends at sixteen were getting married or getting pregnant .
27	I was always keen on dressing up and going out to meet my friends .
28	‘ My friends help by modelling the outfits .
29	‘ I 'm in my 30s now , ’ she adds , ‘ and a lot of my friends are looking round and saying , ‘ Why do n't you have a family , a husband and a baby ? ’
30	With no Changing the Guard today , we had a lovely relaxed morning — a drive down to the Guards Depot to see a couple of my friends in the Guards Dog Unit — German Shepherd Guard Dogs .