Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] a friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt I had met a friend . |
| 2 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 3 | Looks as though I 've made a friend for life . ’ |
| 4 | It seems to be all questions this week , and I 've had a friend asking if it is possible to add stain to varnish to change the colour . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've brought a friend to tea . |
| 6 | I 've got a friend who is a punk ; her make-up takes her ages , but she wants to make a statement , to be noticed . |
| 7 | I 've got a friend who recently dyed her hair purple because everyone knows you are n't going to get a decent — not to mention interesting — job with a ‘ punky ’ hairstyle , pierced nose and scruffy clothes , and she wants to stay in college . |
| 8 | I 've got a friend of 84 or 85 ; the first thing he wants after a marathon is a drink of beer and a cigar . |
| 9 | Especially when I 've got a friend who might come up and visit . |
| 10 | Erm I 've got a friend doing teacher training there . |
| 11 | I 've got a friend who 's going to inform the police about him . |
| 12 | I 've got a friend who 's always doing it . |
| 13 | Jenny said , " I 've got a friend who knows about antiques — I mean he buys and sells them . |
| 14 | In actual fact I 've got a friend and I go potholing with him , we meet , he 's a Kendall farmer , he 's a a sheep farmer and er , we meet and he says you know what I 've got a problem with on my land , not foxes dogs and walkers that have n't got them on the leads and crows at lambing time cos they peck their eyes out and things of that calibre , he says yes , I 'll tell you what I 'll bet you I 've had animals taken by foxes he , he says I probably have , he said but I 've not had this kind of unindeighted killing as . |
| 15 | I do n't suppose you 're overjoyed that I 've got a friend in the rival camp . ’ |
| 16 | Now I 've got a friend of mine that makes them . |
| 17 | or erm , anyway I 've got a friend help me |
| 18 | I 've got a friend 's house on the back |
| 19 | To say : ‘ I think I have made a friend today . ’ |
| 20 | At Art College , she 'd had a friend whose catch phrase when asked for a date , was : How about next July , I seem to have a Wednesday free . |
| 21 | But you 've got a friend there now . ’ |
| 22 | A rationale after a command which can obscure what is required and encourage the child to ask questions and side track , e.g. ‘ Please pick up your toys , you 've got a friend coming and I want your room to look tidy ’ . |
| 23 | Perhaps , ’ he went on , turning to Merrill , ‘ you 've got a friend who 'd like a job in Ghent ? ’ |
| 24 | The only thing that I said was erm that Tony told us that you keep your game tonight so that you 've got a friend any time you want . |
| 25 | and you 've got a friend . |
| 26 | Once she had visited a friend who had a room in a house in North London ; she had accompanied her friend into the small back garden , and had been deeply shocked to find that the walls dividing the row of small terraced gardens were only two feet high . |
| 27 | By the late 1880s she had become a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft [ q.v. ] , who wrote to Joshua on 9 December 1790 : ‘ I fear her situation is still very uncomfortable . |
| 28 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 29 | They vowed to sort that out when they next met , and Christina felt she had made a friend and ally in Pauline Bascombe . |
| 30 | She felt she had murdered a friend . |