Their closeness now was beyond friendship, a relationship that he could not put into words.

She was another one who had believed that my bond with the Fool went beyond friendship.

Whether the relationship had gone beyond friendship Dalgliesh would now never know.

It was beyond friendship too because no one with any feeling for her at all could bring her to this.

But it took a few more years to go beyond friendship.

She also says that the chance of them ever going beyond friendship is "one in a billion".

He realised, suddenly, that his interest in her went a little beyond friendship.

He had responsibilities in the squadron that went beyond friendship.

It went beyond friendship, partnership, even family most of the time.

And he had said of their relationship in that distant future, "It goes beyond friendship."