Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 2 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 3 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 4 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 5 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 6 | Thank you erm I hardly ever comment on these but I just , I was n't sure what because quite often these things go under another guise , but there are a number of schemes on the drawing board for investigation as you all know and Mr will know some of those they 've been around for , for some years . |
| 7 | they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths . |
| 8 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 9 | I do n't think that Judaism or Christianity will be altered by any of this — they have been around for too long for that . |
| 10 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 11 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 12 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 13 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 14 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 15 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 16 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 17 | UTOPIA : It 's been around for quite a time . |
| 18 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 19 | I 'm sure that Rex Bellamy wo n't mind me saying that in tennis terms at least , he 's been around for quite a while . |