A friend recognized me by it once, just hearing it on the radio.
Fortunately, a few real friends recognised his true worth as a man and stood by him to the end.
Thus, even when family and friends recognize mood swings, the individual often will deny that anything is wrong.
The second is the extent to which his friends recognised the change in him.
I bet their own friends wouldn't have recognized them.
Often they were so complete that even his friends did not recognize him.
When Frank emerged from the house, his best friends would not have recognized him.
As my friend had recognized, the shed has an essence of its own.
Close friends (had she had any) would not have recognized it.
"Certainly my friends and I recognize that we're walking on the skin of a soap bubble."