Sentence examples for a close acquaintance from inspiring English sources

The glaziers, however, were probably English with a close acquaintance with French models.

Nick Townsend tells the story with panache, helped by a close acquaintance with the Irish mastermind of the scheme, Barney Curley, a name which bookmakers have had reason to curse on several occasions.

But Lloyd Grief, a close acquaintance of the family and president of Grief & Company of Los Angeles, the investment bank that took L.A. Gear public in 1986, said, "I think he was stunned with his stock's original reception".

Professor McIntyre liked to engage fellow patrons on the subject of race, according to one regular customer, Daniel Morgan, who considers himself a close acquaintance of both Professor McIntyre and Ms. Davis.

Here again was a parade of lovable prostitutes and mixed nuts, including an old man who exercised by singing opera in the lobby and an old woman who had a close acquaintance with ghosts.

According to the complaint, a "close acquaintance" of Ciccolo's told federal officials Ciccolo had a history of mental illness and had become "obsessed" with Islam in the last 18 months.

I was friends with over 300 people, 200 of these 'friends' were not even people I would consider beyond a close acquaintances.

It was already to some degree familiar to them from the work of the western Greeks in Italy and Sicily, and the Romans formed a closer acquaintance with it in the court of Alexandria and from the profits of their diplomacy and warfare.

It is part of the festival experience, it seems, to stand freezing and flummoxed on a platform at Newport, to sit on motorways clogged with football fans aiming for Cardiff, or to make a closer acquaintance with country hedgerows than you intended to.

Trusting someone who has your best interests in mind, like a close friend or acquaintance, or even someone that is slightly more removed but in your network, is much more compelling, he adds.

The percentage of Americans who have a close friend or acquaintance who is Sikh, while just 31percentt have seen or interacted with a Sikh person at all.