Example sentences of "[verb] be around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been around the world with him . |
| 2 | Scott has been around the rock and blues circuit in Ireland for some time and has played with many of the top musicians here . |
| 3 | Second , it has been around the definition and significance of culture that some of the sharpest disagreements and disputes in the field of multiculturalism and antiracism have been expressed . |
| 4 | as if to illustrate this point I recently spoke to an angler on the Ribble and judging by the distance he held his hands apart — ’ Like this they were ! ’ — his recent catch of ’ two pounders ’ could easily have been around the 6lb mark ! |
| 5 | She was very young , 18 or 19 , and relatively immature although much more worldly wise than I was because she had lived a much more international sort of life , and having been around the music scene a lot more than I had , she was streetwise at her age to a greater degree than I — there was no question of that . |
| 6 | But anyway , a lot of the detail , a lot of the detail seems to have been around the , the , the words that have , have , have been used in the document , but I 'll ask Paul to specifically respond to that . |
| 7 | He had been around the scene for long enough to know how to manipulate meetings without getting everyone 's back up . |
| 8 | She and her husband Felix had been around the London underground since its birth , apart from a sojourn in the backwater of Munich . |
| 9 | cos if he he 's on a twelve hour shift and , those meetings tend to be have been around the same sort of time , then obviously , what we 've got ta be careful about is , adding any more hours |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , it 's been around the common room for some time now . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Frank 's been around the course already , he knew what it would be like if MacQuillan got the Post . ’ |