Example sentences of "'ve [be] around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 4 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Er it 's partly using some questions that 've been around for a very long time but there 're some subtle variations and some new ones added in , okay ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |