1.   Their friendship was beginning to turn sour.

2.   When Bimbo and Larry go into business together, their friendship begins to deteriorate -- no surprise there.

3.   Their friendship began with a chance meeting at a business convention.

4.   A friendship began to take hold.

5.   A friendship began.

6.   Friendships are beginning to be more difficult to manage than enmities.

7.   From that unlikely start, a genuine friendship began when both were in Advanced Placement physics the next year.

8.   Fuentes, who vigorously supported the Sandinistas, never defended his longtime friend, and their friendship began to dissolve.

9.   From that moment a friendship began, and since then the two women have often engaged in a time-honored, behind-the-scenes show business ritual.

10.   Friendship often begins inauspiciously.