1.   Ashbee and his influential friends met or corresponded almost daily to pursue their tastes.

2.   Christine Mills did not have any really influential friends but Taczek certainly did.

3.   I interceded with an influential friend to gain the youth political asylum.

4.   Mr Komarek May have some influential friends, but he also faces powerful enemies.

5.   He had influential friends.

6.   Her rise to power was facilitated by her influential friends.

7.   Also, a professed pacifist with influential friends.

8.   And when the program stopped making money, Bicknell did not have enough influential friends to protect him.

9.   At least the last preppie had a padded resume, compliments of his influential friends.

10.   But the bulbs have some influential new friends, like Scott Canning, the curator of the Warm-Temperate Pavilion at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.