Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rumour mill claims Unix System Laboratories Inc has been sniffing around the Santa Cruz Operation Inc over the last few months — with takeover in mind . |
| 2 | Not on your life — I 've been hanging around the set of Bedroom Farce hoping Chris 'll come back from the bar . |
| 3 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 5 | What I would say is there are instances that have been happening around the country in the last year , where both doctors , G Ps , and nurses have actually said , you 're not doing that . |
| 6 | Social embarrassment , duly fictionalised , is an odd commodity to export , and it does not figure in official balance-of-payments figures ; but it has been selling around the world since Fielding 's Tom Jones and Scott 's Waverley , not to mention Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster . |
| 7 | That 's what 's been going around the common room and that 's what all this adds up to . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I did feel a bit ropey earlier in the week and a bug has been going around the club for sometime . |
| 9 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 10 | Even though he 's been travelling around the world , he 's kept up with what 's going on back home . |
| 11 | The Doctor had been pacing around the invisible prison , punching at the walls and muttering to himself . |
| 12 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |
| 13 | ‘ Search for what , since you 're not after all the heroin , or whatever I 'm supposed to have been ferrying around the islands for a week ? ’ |
| 14 | Health board engineers have been working around the clock since Saturday 's attack to get operating theatres cleaned and sterilised . |
| 15 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 16 | For the past 4 days , they 've been working around the clock and through the night . |
| 17 | Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable . |