Example sentences of "we [verb] friends " in BNC.

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1 Her husband at once carne in and shook hands with my wife and myself , saying , ‘ Whatever happens , we remain friends . ’
2 Also , we made friends .
3 We made friends then who have been our friends for life .
4 Chunky heard about his and we became friends . ’
5 On that day we became friends , yet for a long time I kept my distance , afraid even to shake hands with him .
6 ‘ I had never heard of the area when I met a teacher from there in 1973 but we became friends and I started to visit .
7 Anyway , we became friends of sorts .
8 Jim showed me around for awhile and we became friends until he moved to news work in Toronto within the year .
9 But the Lord Lane I met at Aviemore could hardly have been more different — affable , witty and without a trace of self awareness of his office ; and if I call him Geoffrey here , it is only because after Aviemore we became friends , played the odd round of golf together , exchanged letters and met on several social occasions .
10 You know , we became friends in Los Angeles .
11 We became friends very quickly because I think we think in the same way .
12 He 's a few years older than I am and was already one of the most respected members of the Weighing Room when we became friends .
13 But when he realised that we both wanted to do all we could to encourage the best art education for the pupils in the West Riding schools the barriers were down and we became friends .
14 We became friends with the Under-Secretary who , always hopeful of the French teacher 's early return , paid a number of late-night visits to the flat .
15 But while we laughed we became friends .
16 Making the film helped him to do so , for he welcomed us , we needed his counsel , and we became friends .
17 Ca n't we stay friends ?
18 The autumn launch of the Campaign for Resource will include a wide range of events to which we welcome friends , alumni , students and staff .
19 We meet friends of him , of Valentin , and also it rains and rains … ’
20 We do n't say we writhe the Munros because we do n't slither up them on our bellies , nor would we invite friends to hop , swim , float or jitterbug up a Munro on a Saturday .
21 We called friends in Australia and amazingly , they found a cylinder we could rent and shipped it to Darwin .
22 ‘ Just think , Miss Lea — we might even find we become friends . ’
23 Life will be much pleasanter and smoother if we become resigned to that fact , if we become friends instead of enemies . "
24 We had friends who waited two days in Sorata before getting transport to the Ancohuma base .
25 ‘ Not at all convenient when we had friends or family to stay , ’ says Mary Jane .
26 Fortunately , we had friends at Kelton , which was on the way , about an hour 's walk into the journey , so one could stop and rest .
27 I remember many years ago , we had friends who had a fishing boat , er herring drifter , and in Fraserburgh the there 's a young lad going out with them for a night 's fishing and it was a beautiful summer 's night !
28 And erm , one day we had friends round , and I went into the loo it stinks of smoke in here , it was really bizarre , and I , I went , and sort of just thought oh , and then I went in again , and I really did smell , and I thought , this is really odd , and so when I came out here I said , did anyone else smell smoke in the ba in the bathroom , and they said oh yeah , I could smell cigarette smoke , and then , it must have just been upstairs , and it wafted down , and in through ours , cos there was no one else really around .
29 We had friends who were able to — like a Lebanese friend I 've got , he was er arranging — he used to bring us the food and water and things like that .
30 We stayed friends even though he went to university and I did n't , even though he went off to Nineveh and Distant Ophir and I did n't , even though I went into the Bank and had a steady job while he flitted from one bit of temporary work to another and eventually ended up teaching English as a foreign language in a side street off the Edgware Road .
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