Beside his children and wife, he seems to have only two intimate friends.

Within the family and among intimate friends, he was always called 'Tom'.

I should say not more than three or four people could call themselves his intimate friends.

If you needed tickets for 60,000 or so intimate friends, no problem.

A thousand or so of his intimate friends turned up.

He had no intimate friends among those of his age who attended the school.

My time is nearly all devoted to some very intimate friends.

When a person died at home, family members and intimate friends gathered around the death bed.

"New York is not a city in which you make a great many intimate friends."

When the day of the first test arrived Tom allowed only his most intimate friends to be present.

Although he was almost three times my age, we quickly became close friends.

The two men had been close friends for many years.

No, not even if they live the rest of their lives as close friends, the kind who usually tell each other everything.

I have a close friend who was a model for many years.

They have been close friends ever since the early 2000s.

They start to work together and soon become close friends.

After all, they'd become close friends over the last several months.

By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.

I hadn't seen him in years, and we had never really been close friends.

He also has a relationship with John, because they are close friends.

Not only was he Pitt's political colleague, but in private life his boon companion.

We have hooked up with some very boon companions.

Oh, she'll come running the next time Peregrinus has a letter from one of his boon companions!

The words suggest some boon companion of his own.

With his new boon companion as prosecutor, however, this proved nothing.

Over the last year, solitude had become his boon companion.

But she couldn't be my teacher and boon companion anymore, it was simply impossible.

So Morel would go on to the amusement of his boon companions.

It was offensive to me who had been equal and boon companion of Kim for many days.

Buster, he said to his boon companion, it may be up to you again.

He usually was when his bosom friend Reggie had in one way or another come to grief.

"Still, dear, you must be very lonely, and feel the need of a bosom friend."

I wonder if Diana is to be my bosom friend.

They were bosom friend and leaders of political party.

They were bosom friends, those two, and never far apart.

He twinkled at me as though we were suddenly bosom friends.

They all fit with him like a bosom friend.

Strange that the words at home with me so long Should fly like bosom friends when needed most.

See that you and he are not exactly bosom friends?

They became bosom friends, and somehow the talk always got around to pies.

And along comes Bugs's bosom buddy to save the day.

I don't exactly want to become bosom buddies with this thing.

Incidentally, since we don't happen to be bosom buddies, I'll have you watch your language.

This is a city based on commerce and its bosom buddy, selling.

But the two had not been exactly bosom buddies.

"None of you have done anything likely to make a bosom buddy out of me."

It wouldn't do for us to become bosom buddies like you and Giordino.

Just because I froze once doesn't mean I've become your bosom buddy.

Bosom Buddies ran for two seasons, and, although the ratings were never strong, television critics gave the program high marks.

He claims this Tony is the bosom buddy of a great friend of his.