noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a childhood friend
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He married his childhood friend.
a circle of friends
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Over the years she had established a circle of good friends.
a school friend
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She met some old school friends.
among friends
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Jim relaxed, knowing he was among friends .
dear friend
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Mark became a dear friend .
fair-weather friend
faithful friend
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a faithful friend
false friend
firm friends (= close friends )
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Diana and Laura have been firm friends since their early teens.
friend of hers
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Paul’s a friend of hers .
friend of mine
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I want you to meet an old friend of mine .
friend of theirs
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They shared the prize money with a friend of theirs .
friend of yours
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Is Maria a friend of yours ?
friends and relations
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We miss our friends and relations in the UK.
friends and relatives
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About thirty-five close friends and relatives attended the wedding.
friends of his
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Garry introduced us to some friends of his .
friends of ours
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The Thackers are friends of ours .
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have a circle of friends/acquaintances etc
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She was beautiful and had a wide circle of admirers.
lifelong friend
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She became a lifelong friend of ours.
long-lost brother/cousin/friend etc
long-time friend/lover etc
pen friend
sb’s few belongings/friends etc
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I gathered together my few possessions.
school friend
the best of friends (= very close friends )
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They became the best of friends .
the days/dreams/friends etc of sb’s youth
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He had long ago forgotten the dreams of his youth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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He named a man who, as I have said, was a very close friend of mine.
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One of those Bill GatesAnn Winblad situations where you part the closest of friends and then what?
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For seventy years Max Jacob has been regarded as Modigliani's closest friend .
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Bulger has maintained that the trips were nothing more than personal vacations with a close friend .
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They tried to assassinate her; and killed off two of her closest political friends , Airey Neave and Ian Gow.
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The brilliant artist Peter Ellenshaw a close friend of Bill, was in a similar situation.
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Brother to the Good Sir James, the Bruce's closest friend .
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Sometimes he shared an outline or argument with his close friend Hal Owen, the country vet.
dear
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I know I should not allow one of my dearest friends to discover so late on of my romantic attachment ....
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My dear friend , I beg you to let us go ahead with our plan.
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He was a dear friend to many and will be greatly and sadly missed.
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But posting a bond would be risky even for a dear friend .
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She deserved no less, for she was the kindest, sweetest, dearest friend he had in the world.
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But the fact that you were a close and dear friend to my parents gives us a close bond, nevertheless.
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First of all, my dearest man friend died of cancer, aged forty-two.
good
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She was always a good friend to me.
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I sit on the curb outside my house, talking about books with my best friends , Freddie and Susan.
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All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me.
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Like third-grade best friends , these girls are not going to be separated.
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And he was a very good friend to Tom.
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Q: You and Faye Dunaway are good friends .
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As little as possible, but some of my best friends love it, so it depends on them.
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Both had grandsons who were best friends in the same grade in the same school.
mutual
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All of them were vaguely connected by work, or school, or mutual friends .
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Yes, he must have, though l had no word from mutual friends or my parents or sister.
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It was enough to have discovered one true mutual friend whose testimony could be relied upon.
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He did not say so, but I presumed that a mutual friend had told him about my separation and divorce.
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She was a staunch Methodist and a great admirer of our mutual friend Edna Jacques, of whom we often spoke.
new
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All kinds of people came to see plays and Will was making a lot of new friends .
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Then she races to recess with her new friend .
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Male speaker I've been juggling for about 5 months and it's a good place to meet new friends .
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So he devoted himself to his many New York friends and to the Manhattan social scene.
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They perhaps correspond in some ways to those of our new friend , Mr Bodenland.
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Try to get out and about whenever possible, making new friends and contacts.
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My New York friend had the right idea.
old
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So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time.
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I was dawdling over dessert, still killing time, when an old friend , Rose Dikas, slid into my booth.
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I share digs with an old school friend of mine, Daphne Harcourt-Browne.
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It was in the handwriting of my old friend Henry Jekyll.
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The old life, the old adventures, the old friends .
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He enjoyed being with his old friends in Jerusalem.
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Luigi, the fat, jovial owner, greeted Michele like an old friend .
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You've moved house and now live in an area away from your family and old friends .
personal
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Always helpful, he said he would have a word with Mallett, a personal friend , on my behalf.
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Mter all, the doctor is a personal friend .
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Come on all you personal friends of Batts out there; is this report true?
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They were close personal friends in addition to business partners.
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And if the new owners wish to allow in personal friends as members, why not.
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Or maybe the greedy merchant is a personal friend .
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Abbado is also a joy, and Barenboim I would now count as a personal friend .
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The coroner was John Lancelot Martin, a personal friend of the deceased, as were several members of the jury.
■ NOUN
school
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She was an old school friend , although we were out of school by then.
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There she was able to board with the family of an old school friend .
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He phoned an old school friend named Andy Rourke.
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One successful enterprise was started by two high school friends who loved to eat.
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He cadged fivers off various old school friends and workmates to tide him over until he could get to the bank.
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How would my secondary school friends have described me?
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On Friday evenings, he often attended a disco with school friends in a church hall near to it.
■ VERB
ask
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She had asked her friend to take her to see where Benny would be a student.
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By then, the prosecutor said, Lawhone was obsessed with the girl and began asking friends to help kidnap her.
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You could either ask a gardening friend if they could give you one or you could try and take one yourself.
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First, ask friends and family who they use.
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My daughter had asked a couple of friends from university to stay.
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For the event walkers are asked to solicit friends , family, associates and others as sponsors.
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I asked a young friend to read to me because I have difficulty in reading.
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If she had been a timid child, she would probably have asked her friend Balie Waggener.
become
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You need to know your enemy before you can make it your friend and yes, fear can become your friend.
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My six closest friends in the world all became close friends at Harvard Business School.
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Endill and the Bookman became great friends .
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It has become like an old friend , seen daily: not always dependable, but usually interesting, and sometimes right.
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It is also where she first met many of the people who have since become loyal and supportive friends .
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Which was around the time that Delia and Tammy became friends .
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Freemantle knew Leapor's writing long before they had actually become friends .
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Mike and I became friends at school, and I often had him to stay at my parents' house on weekends.
meet
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Perhaps you are going on an outing or meeting a friend .
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On the way over I met a friend , Dave, out jogging.
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He met his friends in the small wood outside the village.
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Although this particular occasion was rather marred by our mishap it was great to meet old friends again.
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Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday.
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Through the Pattens, Joe met many new friends , some highly influential, others merely famous.
stay
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For eight days he lingered in Clifton, staying with friends , until the river cleared and the service resumed.
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The family were surprised to hear that he had written to his father asking if he could bring a friend to stay .
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Instead, the older girl said, Garcia spoke of staying with friends and relatives in Houston.
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I decided to go and stay with friends and tried to push it out of my head.
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I stay with my friend Allan, a flaky architect I had briefly been infatuated with in 1983.
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But she was staying with friends .
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Hammeed was staying with family friends .
tell
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You can tell all your friends !
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Think of it as a form of computer dating you can actually tell your friends about.
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I told my friend Bridget it was up to us to keep watch.
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Filled with shame, she rarely tells a friend how inept, depressed, or restless she feels.
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I smiled at both of them and told his friend my clothes suited him.
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First, I was told she was visiting friends .
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Only he and Mallachy knew about it, and sometimes he regretted that he'd told his friend .
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The second thing is to tell your friend to get lost.
visit
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Early one spring I drove down to South Carolina to visit some friends .
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The abbe had allowed me to visit friends .
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First, I was told she was visiting friends .
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One day they were invited to visit some old friends who had moved to Hereford.
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She also took the time to visit a Denison House friend of hers in Sheffield.
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She said she was on her way home after visiting friends when the incident happened.
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How often did Fred Taylor visit the homes of friends from the shop or otherwise see them outside work hours?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
best friend
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Caroline and her best friend both had babies within three weeks of each other.
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Stuart is just my brother's best friend - I've known him since I was six.
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We lived next door to each other when we were kids, and we've been best friends ever since.
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After all - the man was one of his best friends, wasn't he?
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Although many people would disagree, radio is without doubt the musician's best friend.
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Didn't any of his best friends tell him?
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He was like a kid who had found a new best friend, and she was it.
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He was not allowed to mention the slaughtering to anyone, not even as a special secret between best friends.
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I also learned to become my own best friend.
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Trials so that her injured best friend Kay Poe could advance.
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When Julie had a home problem, her two best friends at work tried to offer advice based on their own experiences.
bosom friend/buddy/pal
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Benny and Garry were bosom pals once again.
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He was still my friend, my bosom friend.
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It is an open secret that he and Reg Pybus are bosom pals.
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It is now that man contemplates, for it is now that the sea is a bosom friend.
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Queequeg says they are now married-meaning they are bosom friends who would defend each other to the death.
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The first was affection of the kind that binds families together, or bosom pals.
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There was less arguing after that, but the two actors never became bosom buddies and never worked together again.
fast friends
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Ishmael and Queequeg become fast friends.
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Other volunteers want to become fast friends and cultural advisers.
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The two become fast friends and Herbert gently and tactfully instructs Pip in social behaviour appropriate for a gentleman.
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The two of them immediately became fast friends.
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They never, however, became hard and fast friends and there was an unspoken rivalry between them.
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Within a few years they had become fast friends.
feathered friend
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However, don't feed your feathered friends very dry bread, desiccated coconut or salty food.
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No gratitude came from feathered friends.
furry friends
lady friend
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Henry had just come in with his new lady friend.
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Bringing one of your lady friends?
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Frank had given Terence's gramophone to a lady friend, and would he please not tell Mum?
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Henry had just come in with his new lady friend, Lila Sams.
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Michael Lamonte, according to his lady friend, was filming at Pinewood.
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There was something about Tom's lady friend that seemed familiar and yet Joe couldn't quite place her.
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They had hired two massive and attractive, expensive houses, and were accompanied by two attractive and expensive lady friends.
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They tell their lady friends, and then all secrecy is lost.
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You had two tables, the second one to accommodate your lady friends.
man's best friend
mutual friend/interest
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His earliest rape, of a 19year-old girl, happened the previous year after they met via a mutual friend.
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It was enough to have discovered one true mutual friend whose testimony could be relied upon.
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She just wanted a mutual friend's number.
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The officials were eager to stress the mutual interests of our two countries and a future full of cooperation.
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The participating States also envisage holding future seminars on topics of mutual interest.
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Their mutual interest had transcended the age difference, and he had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.
personal friend
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He was a personal friend of the Kennedys.
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I need to do as well for Roy Peck, my personal friend.
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Mter all, the doctor is a personal friend.
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Or you may be a personal friend of Lucian Freud - lucky old you.
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The most obvious of these clubs is composed of officials' personal friends.
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The range was inspired, in 1935, by the Pasha of Marrakech, a personal friend of Louis Cartier.
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Their leaders, who were once close personal friends, are no longer on speaking terms.
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They were close personal friends in addition to business partners.
some friend you are/some help she was etc
the Honourable Gentleman/the Honourable Lady/my Honourable Friend/the Honourable Member
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Friends, we are gathered here today to witness the marriage of John and Beth.
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Dad, this is my friend Steve.
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Don't worry, you're among friends here.
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I'm going out for a drink with a friend of mine tonight.
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I got a letter from a friend from college.
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Jerry, I'd like to introduce you to my friend Lucinda.
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John was a really good friend to me when I had all those problems last year.
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She's going to Palm Springs with some friends.
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Who goes there? Friend or foe?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, you know, we all lost a good friend .
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He flew to Phoenix to be with our friends in their time of suffering.
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Her parents spent weeks sleeping on a hospital floor, while her sister, Caroline was being cared for by friends.
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The horse cropped at a leisurely pace through the flat Fenland countryside, Illingworth fretting while my friend gazed about calmly.
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The presence of a bodyguard was a constant reminder of the invisible veil which separated her from her family and friends.
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The three friends have printed 5, 000 copies of the book, but refuse to say how much they spent.
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The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he'd been drinking.