1.   A childhood friend, Bob Jakin, who is now a packman, offers Tom and Maggie ten guineas he has earned.

2.   But after that he met up again with Olwen, a childhood friend.

3.   Family solidarity extended to the most distant cousins and even to childhood friends.

4.   Lenoir and Lehartel, childhood friends who attended different schools, were spending the day together.

5.   Most live far from families and childhood friends.

6.   She had been a childhood friend of Tony Walker.

7.   Some confessed, some made love, some slept exhausted and dreamed of childhood friends or long-forgotten moments with grandparents.

8.   The only exception was among my childhood friends or old school classmates.

9.   He told me that he had persuaded his childhood friend to move to America.

10.   To find employment my father moved to Peterborough and although I have since lived at Rathcoole for a period I have found my childhood friends difficult to trace.