Example sentences of "in a friend [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 2 | You can learn more about make-up from a quick snoop in a friend 's bathroom than you can from any other source . |
| 3 | Elizabeth works two days a week in a friend 's boutique which she enjoys , as it gives her a little pin money and some independent social contact . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 6 | Indeed , you have probably broken previous weight-loss diets because of social pressures , such as eating in a restaurant , or eating in a friend 's house , where their encouragement , " go on it wo n't hurt " , and your response , " just this once , " are the first fatal steps to weight gain . |
| 7 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 8 | Mr Friel had become so frightened that he took refuge in a friend 's house nearby until he thought the coast was clear at midnight . |
| 9 | After the ceremony , the newly-weds cycled the eight miles back to the reception ( held in a friend 's garden ) on their tandem . |
| 10 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 11 | Then , suddenly and unexpectedly , in the spring of 1933 my uncle collapsed lapsed and died while walking in a friend 's garden . |
| 12 | Most friends acknowledge two sides to a complex persona : the serious historian , devotee of Mrs Thatcher , bent on reshaping Britain ; and the uncontrollable , overgrown schoolboy with a ‘ Daddy complex ’ , endowed — in a friend 's phrase — with a ‘ maniacal desire for self-publicity ’ . |
| 13 | He applied for an MRC scholarship in clinical research at the Gustave-Roussy after seeing the application papers in a friend 's office . |
| 14 | My father had managed to get her a job in a friend 's office just off Hatton Garden . |
| 15 | But after flagging down passing motorists , Mrs Fenton drove off in a friend 's car . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was living in a friend 's attic workshop and in need of something to take my mind off my troubles . |
| 18 | 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 . |