Example sentences of "a good friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 2 | This plan came to grief , however , when Waters , in an attempt to establish friendly relations , gave a prospective producer a copy of one of his books , which showed the idiosyncratic director palling up with one of Charles Manson 's gang — a gesture which was in even worse taste than it might sound , as the producer proved to have been a good friend of one of the gang 's victims . |
| 3 | ‘ Norman Lamont is a good friend of the NHS and I am sure — or I think I am sure — that he will prove it , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 4 | In 1942 he was picked out by Alec Harvey-Bailey ( later to become a senior Rolls-Royce figure and a good friend ) to join the defect investigation department , analysing war-service failures in Merlin , Griffon and Vulture engines . |
| 5 | For the last five years , a good friend of mine has suffered from panic attacks . |
| 6 | You 've been a good friend but unfortunately this is not going to be enough to help your friend . |
| 7 | 'He was a good friend to me , ’ Richard said . |
| 8 | Many people lost a good friend when Philip Tompson died suddenly and unexpectedly last year . |
| 9 | He was a good friend indeed . |
| 10 | I used to get them various gigs at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street and the Roundhouse , and some dates at universities throughout the country , but there was n't an awful lot coming in although I did succeed in getting him a TV appearance and the producer , who was a good friend of mine , said , ‘ I 'll not have this guy on my programme with long hair ’ . ’ |
| 11 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |
| 12 | You have been a good friend to me when there was no one else ; and you have given me back my health . |
| 13 | She was a county councillor and a good friend . |
| 14 | The next step , then , is to ask a good friend ( preferably one whose height is about the same as yours and whose appearance you admire ) to take his or her own measurements . |
| 15 | Alexander was grieved to lose such a good friend , and built the city Bucephalia in memory of him . |
| 16 | He was a good friend of Hans Sloane , on whose behalf Miller wrote with thanks for plants and later passed on a prescription for gout : patience and flannel . |
| 17 | Gemayel was also a good friend of Israel and the CIA was hoping to get him elected as president of Lebanon . |
| 18 | John was proving to be a good friend as well as brother-in-law . |
| 19 | She had arrived in Paris in 1912 and soon became a good friend of Soutine and a familiar Montparnasse character . |
| 20 | Fernande Olivier , Picasso 's mistress , described him as stingy , but he was a good friend to Modigliani , encouraged him to paint and lent him colours , brushes and canvas . |
| 21 | I had with me a good friend who knows the region well — he lives there — and he was following our route on a map . |
| 22 | This meant we were playing with Paul in the third round and that was good news for me because Paul 's caddie is a good friend of mine , Kevin Woodward . |
| 23 | Chapman was a sidesman at the church and a good friend of the vicar , the Reverend Norman Boyd , who was a regular guest at Arsenal 's home matches . |
| 24 | She is a strict disciplinarian treated with great respect by her customers , but she is kind-hearted and a good friend to Lizzie Hexam . |
| 25 | In my spare time I saw a lot of John Keay , an Agriculture graduate of the U. of Saskatchewan and a good friend , as well as Jerry Harwood and Quincey Moffat with whom I was closely associated in organizing the annual Boys ' Parliament elections . |
| 26 | A good friend of mine had joined and I really liked the uniform . |
| 27 | It was not a question requiring an answer — Weasel was a good friend from art school days and often dropped in unannounced . |
| 28 | As a good friend of mine once commented , ‘ If man could only see his aura , he would never go to war . ’ |
| 29 | In fact , a good friend of mine , Ruth Dayan , once studied a particular species of ant in the Israeli desert . |
| 30 | And my coat , my big army coat , which is forty years old now but still a good friend , and as strong as ever , became a remarkable sight . |