When he shot down an aircraft on 22 July, a friend congratulated Mannock.

"Every time he'd hit another one, my friends would call and congratulate me," said Jackson, who is 51.

It was not until friends congratulated him later that evening that he realized that the curtain had been met by wild applause.

The two friends congratulated each other.

Well, he did make one recent concession, he admitted, as a friend approached and congratulated him on the shaving of his goatee.

My friend of yesterday congratulated me on my recovery.

It was in a way a victory, and her friends congratulated her.

For example (and there are many), she learned of the Everest trip when a friend congratulated her husband on making the cut.

"I was in awe of the stuff all my friends had for their children and congratulated myself for being able to live without them."

All his friends congratulated him, but Jamie took no pleasure in his victory.