befriend

Object

• arrangment: I started to really think about our befriending arrangment and soon realized that going out with him each week was a high point.
• stranger: Blessed are the peacemakers, who befriend perfect strangers.
• scheme: Who have worked with the elderly - on befriending schemes or learning to use the internet to keep in touch with grandchildren.
• prisoner: He also engages actively in befriending lonely, isolated prisoners, traveling many miles to visit them.
• refugee: In nearby Dover, the Migrant Helpline supports and befriends refugees and asylum seekers.
• girl: Julia had befriended an American girl whose father was a pastor in Moscow.

Subject

• boy: In our version, she is befriended by a boy who flies kites.
• woman: Shem finds himself befriended by a lonely woman called Rose of whom he grows fond.
• dog: They traveled by night, befriended by various generous dogs.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

• such: An artist himself, he befriended avant-garde artists such as Bob Thompson, Robert Rauschenberg and Yoko Ono.

Modifying Another Word

• quickly: In each book, the writer quickly befriends the " players " of the respective communities and hears the gossip.
• soon: Other pets are often curious at first but soon befriend the chickens.
• also: He also befriended the officers of British ships stationed in North America.
• even: You've entertained, helped, maybe even befriended me over these last few months.
• not: Why not befriend nature ( ie human nature ) instead trying to distort it with cruelty?
• then: Once trained, befrienders are " matched " with the person they will then befriend.

Preposition: for

• year: The Guild has been involved in befriending for many years, but this has now been placed on a more organized footing.

Preposition: by

• boy: In our version, she is befriended by a boy who flies kites.
• woman: Shem finds himself befriended by a lonely woman called Rose of whom he grows fond.
• dog: They traveled by night, befriended by various generous dogs.