Example sentences of "a friend ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If surprise were a central system function then we would not , indeed , blink because the blink would be controlled by our knowledge of a friend 's good nature . |
| 2 | He farms half an acre of a friend 's land in Mid-Glamorgan . |
| 3 | A MAN accused of killing Marie Wilks arrived at a friend 's house with a thick smudge of blood on his car the day after she disappeared , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 4 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 5 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 6 | The car , a VW Golf , was parked outside a friend 's house in Otley , West Yorkshire , and later recovered in nearby Shipley with all the contents missing . |
| 7 | I can quite honestly say that it is ages since I have had an evening of such delight ; and the personal interest of reading a friend 's work had very little to do with it . |
| 8 | After the ceremony , the newly-weds cycled the eight miles back to the reception ( held in a friend 's garden ) on their tandem . |
| 9 | Another song celebrates the launching of a friend 's motor yacht , and a tiny fragment , Casa mia , was written for a house agent to use , when Puccini wanted to sell his house . |
| 10 | A week after the hit-and-run , Seth was so drunk that police were able to determine he was drunk in charge while he sat idling his Vette in front of a friend 's house . |
| 11 | Shortly afterwards Jane went to a friend 's house in Kensington to a musical party where a famous quartet was playing and , sitting on the stairs , talked to someone whom she took to be one of the players . |
| 12 | He 'd say that he 'd suddenly remembered he had to go to the theatre with his family , or to a friend 's engagement party . |
| 13 | Liam 's mother , Harriet Shakespeare , was interviewed at a friend 's house today . ’ |
| 14 | Then , at random almost , she picked up one of the other cuttings , which showed Harriet Shakespeare 's plain , squashed face looking white and distraught and pitiful as she leaned against a friend 's arm . |
| 15 | Have fresh fruit or sugar-free yogurt for dessert a minimum of three days a week ; the other days have low-sugar or no-sugar dessert recipes whenever possible ( e.g. unless eating out or at a friend 's house ) . |
| 16 | This dislocated alternation of joy and fear , anxiety and compulsion , of being outside and inside , and of time that is distorted away from the normal sequence , is difficult to put into words , later words , linear words : but once , in a friend 's flat in Holland Park , I heard the opening passages of a gramophone record which almost caught it : Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion . |
| 17 | I weigh myself in the bathroom at a friend 's house , and I feel jubilant , euphoric , light-as-a-feather , almost floating . |
| 18 | Take , gentle Creatures , take a Friend 's Advice , |
| 19 | A classic instance of this is ‘ The Head-Ach ’ , in which she humorously compares her own writing of poetry with a friend 's gossip . |
| 20 | He often worked in a friend 's studio , and took his meals at Rosalie 's where he peeled potatoes or washed up to pay for the meals . |
| 21 | At a friend 's studio she posed , head on one side and delicate long fingers hanging languidly from the enveloping sleeves of her home-made gown . |
| 22 | There are times when making a certain promise ( say to look after a friend 's child if the friend dies before the child comes of age ) are morally worthwhile but where one does not have an obligation to make them ( remember that in this example too one may find other adequate ways to help one 's friend ) . |
| 23 | He applied for an MRC scholarship in clinical research at the Gustave-Roussy after seeing the application papers in a friend 's office . |
| 24 | When Veronica Sive first became interested in photography through a friend 's guidance , she became aware of the basic elements of the new medium . |
| 25 | Even so , he managed to spend a Sunday sailing in a friend 's boat , had met a potter who was throwing a dinner service for him ( ‘ will you phone my father and ask him if he wants a coffee set as well ? ’ ) and had found ‘ some beautiful corduroys . |
| 26 | When staying one Long Vacation at a friend 's place , ‘ at Hom Lacey in Herefordshire ’ , he happened to leave his watch on the window-sill of his chamber . |
| 27 | Someone came to tell her that her twelve-year-old son Paul had been knocked down by a car on the way home from a friend 's house and taken to the local hospital . |
| 28 | Be aware of the look in a friend 's eyes — what is it telling you about him ? |
| 29 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 30 | It was brought home to me by the death of a friend 's dog last week . |