Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	bring_v	find_v	see_v	890	5	2.6574	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63591	A True narrative of the proceedings at the sessions-house in the Old-Bayley, at a sessions there held on the 1st and 2d of June, 1677 being a true relation of the tryal and condemnation of the grand highway-man that robbed the ministers near Uxbridg : with the tryal of the midwife for pretending to be deliverd of a stone dead child, with the tryal of the two searchers that were her confederates : and all other considerable transactions there, with the number of those condemned to die, burnt in the hand, to be transported and whipt.	England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London)	1677 (1677)	Wing T2821; ESTC R38363	3,718	9

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