11.   Edmond Herv is a close friend and he tells me that sometimes you have to play for time to solve a problem.

12.   Fiona and I have always been close friends.

13.   Hawkins was incapable of concealing how he felt from his close friends.

14.   He became close friends with the Pipers and gained great benefits from their taste, experience and enthusiasm.

15.   He followed his inner guidance, and the pair have since become close friends.

16.   He soon became a close friend of my parents and was later godfather to my brother Brian.

17.   Her close friends believe that Mary writes her book reports from book jackets.

18.   Her room becomes a refuge for her and her close friends.

19.   In her book, she gives the impression that she was a close friend of the Prince, but in fact she only met him twice.