Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been a friend of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Singh , a Kenyan Asian , confessed to me , after I had been a friend of the family for several years , that he was neither fluent in Swahili , the language of his education up to 13 , nor in Punjabi , his mother tongue . |
| 2 | I have been a friend of your wonderful Rabbi and of many of you for a very long time . |
| 3 | She has been a friend of WACC for the last 20 years . |
| 4 | John Silver , you 've been a friend of mine , but for no longer . |
| 5 | She had been a friend of Emily 's ; possibly her only friend ; but if Mr Zamoyski was right , she had not been generally liked . |
| 6 | He had been a friend of Lawrence of Arabia ; he knew Ottoline Morrell , at whose house Garsington Manor he had met Virginia Woolf , Bertrand Russell and D. H. Lawrence , among others . |
| 7 | He had been a friend of the Emperor since the two had first met in Rome in 1829 , a time when Malmesbury found him ‘ a wild harum-scarum youth apparently without a serious thought of any kind ’ , who enjoyed galloping through the streets at full tilt on a fine thoroughbred . |
| 8 | I contacted him because he had been a friend of the novelist and playwright , Patrick Hamilton , about whom I am writing a book . |
| 9 | The jury heard he had been a friend of Lady Cross for 12 years and had no history of violence . |