'friend regards' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used as a sign off in letters and emails to emphasize friendship and goodwill. For example: I hope you're doing well. Friend regards, John.
My skeptical friend regards this amiability as "a nice surprise".
I think my friend regards the mandolin as a comedy instrument, related to the dobro, which sounds funny and has a funny name (short for Dopera Brothers, its inventors), and the banjo, which has everlastingly been used for laughs, even though people have played it masterfully.
I picked up my phone to write a quick, sober, text message to a long-ago friend regarding an email sent sometime in 2005.
The musicologist and conductor Gunther Schuller (recently interviewed by the Guardian), Mingus's long-time advocate and close friend, regarded him as the true heir to Duke Ellington for the scope and imagination with which he sought to transform jazz.
The point of view jumps around like the camera in a student film: The portly and courtly Dr. Pendleton Compton is faced with the problem of whether or not to rat on Ash, his best friend, regarding the candy striper incident.
To achieve it, he got guidance from a friend regarding the software to be used for computers, equipment to be bought, the layout of the interior in store, etc.
In response to an inquiry by her best friend regarding the new union, the woman resentfully replied, "I am working full-time just to merge our two worlds together!" As Zalesne proffered, "Blending two families can be both challenging and rewarding".
"Neither sight, nor pen nor inkwell; all these I lack and all that is plentiful is my will," the painter remarked to a friend regarding his loss of hearing, poor health, and frail disposition (2 ).
When you confront a friend regarding their behavior, make sure they know you are serious, or they won't take it seriously.
His friends regarded him with mixed awe and devotion.
Another student told him that he and his friends regarded him as "a legend".
