Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [art] [adj] friends " in BNC.

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1 Er then I went on to Buffalo and Niagara falls and crossed over to Canada which I had a few friends there .
2 I have a few friends that are not connected with the group in some way .
3 ‘ I lead a relatively quiet life , though I have a few friends in the industry because it 's important to have a grape-vine .
4 Scum fans are getting to cocky , unfortunatly I have a few friends and relatives who have not yet seen the light , They think they are unbeatable at the moment and could do the domestic treble .
5 This excellent quiz type program for up to four players is well worth ordering for those evenings you have a few friends round for a couple of drinks .
6 They had the same friends , and they often met at parties .
7 It has a former Friends of the Earth director as a policy adviser and it donates a penny to charity for every returned plastic carrier bag — two ways in which J. Sainsbury is setting out its stall as a leader on environmental issues .
8 His desire to be always in absolute control made it impossible for him to seek the medical and psychological help he needed and he had no close friends to persuade him .
9 But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding .
10 He had no real friends and was difficult .
11 So he was a prisoner still , and in this alien world , circumscribed by a tiny room and a job in a Zoo , he had no real friends .
12 He had no real friends .
13 Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains .
14 What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself .
15 He had the most stars on his books , he had the most friends and he gave the most renowned New York parties .
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