Example sentences of "[pers pn] be around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car crime , nine hundred and sixty cars so far this year have been broke into in the Portsmouth , bearing in mind yours are around the town . |
| 2 | While I was around the bus at least 8 bottle of the fizzy stuff was transported onto the team bus for consumption on the way back . |
| 3 | But she was around the house long enough for me to figure out that whatever arguments she has with herself , at the end of the day she will find some really crackerjack reason for doing whatever it is she wanted to do anyway . |
| 4 | There is no notable deceleration , but I do n't know that my mind was recording anything but fear , nor is there any particular screech or roll , but suddenly we 're around the corner and accelerating down towards the tunnel and Jackie 's saying , ‘ You can relax now , Keith . ’ |
| 5 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 6 | It 's that in the period April ninety one to September ninety one there has been under recovery of VAT of nearly half a million pounds , will wait until they recover it of which two er twenty six thousand is the true result of the South West Region of twenty six thousand pounds just over twenty one and a half thousand pounds related to job club fees , with all staff responsible for organising rosters even sure they are around the content of appendix one , section four , and that that correctly identified in cages , Margaret Cornwall . |
| 7 | ‘ What did Miss Trunchbull call your father when they were around the house at home ? ’ |
| 8 | You can imagine the expression on our faces when she promptly replied ; ‘ Oh yes , it 's around the back . ’ |
| 9 | However , it is around the two main potential uses of this land — agriculture and forestry — that discussion must revolve . |
| 10 | Perhaps Herpomyces is able to penetrate the host 's exoskeleton only where the exoskeleton is thin , as it is around the base of the sensory hairs that cover the cockroach antennae . |
| 11 | The chain-guilloche too is interlaced more frequently ( and , therefore , is more compact ) around the bottom panel and the two panels which contain wave-crest pattern , than it is around the top panel . |
| 12 | He 's well over six feet tall , sports a rough-and-tumble greying beard and , as a physical specimen , he 's around the same mass as , say , Norway . |
| 13 | And it was around the locality that loyalty was built . |
| 14 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |
| 15 | It was around the family table that Blanc learned to respect food . |
| 16 | But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees . |
| 17 | But this time the tape was sagging so low it was around the horse 's knees . |
| 18 | The man hurried on , throwing the leaflet in a waste-paper bin as soon as he was around the corner by the newspaper stand . |
| 19 | There was no motive , and Greg had no notion whether he was around the house at the time or not . |