In the time we had been trying, I had watched friends go from announcing pregnancies to toting around babies.
The three friends go from companions to sounding boards to, ultimately, antagonists of Julian, imbuing the work with a far greater emotional depth than the original.
Jay and her friends go from hanging out to freaking out, then back to hanging out, and the risk that we might be bored by watching bored young folk, whatever their apprehensions, is not one that Mitchell wholly avoids.
Lewis, to the dismay of his friends, went from being a private prig and common-room hearty to being a mensch — a C. of E. mensch, but a mensch.
'Where were you?' he says quite sharply - 'you missed a good night.' Apparently he and his friends went from the party to a club to another party and another club, where he sang a few songs.
I wanted to know, really know, how the teenage girl so desperate to be liked and who, by her own admission, had but few friends, went from copying other girls' hairstyles to leading feminist campus protests and writing under the pseudonym Liz Sistrata for her college paper.
The author identified it as "a solid training montage in which Mulan and her friends go from hapless duffers to fearless warriors in just over two minutes".
(And though I can't say for certain, I bet Lohan is often stranded on her own lonely island like this at this time of night, with all of her friends gone from her. Or why else did she wind up with me?).
Dolly and her friends go from house to house checking that people are washing their hands after defecation and before eating, using sanitary latrines and drinking only clean, covered water.
A friend went from a small Scottish village to a top English uni, and found herself up against various Etonians, all seemingly much cleverer than her.
