11.   His friendship with Brock began as toddlers in day care whose walkers had to be tied to separate ends of a sofa to keep them from fighting each other.

12.   How does this growing friendship with Coleman begin to complicate what Zuckerman believes about the world?

13.   I met Smith shortly after meeting Newman, but our real friendship began later.

14.   The Clinton-Reich friendship had begun when the Arkansan brought chicken broth to a seasick Reich when both were on a boat to England as Rhodes Scholars.

15.   The friendship began somewhat shakily, arranged by a local volunteer agency.

16.   The friendship began truculently, with Bonds declining to autograph some items for Sheffield and Andre Dawson, then with the Marlins.

17.   Their friendship began four years ago, on an AAU team called the Long Island Panthers.

18.   Their friendship began three years ago over casual conversation at an eatery and grew to a house-sharing arrangement.

19.   Their friendship began when the speech ended.

20.   They kept in touch, and their friendship began to seem like destiny.