Example sentences of "[been] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , it 's been around the common room for some time now . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Have you ever been around a health-food shop ? |
| 5 | ‘ Ernie ’ had been around horses all his life . |
| 6 | Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five . |
| 7 | It has been around the world with him . |
| 8 | I used to take bass for granted , because I did n't really understand it , but having been around Sara I 've got a much deeper appreciation for the way she fits into the rhythm section and comes up with lines that move around underneath the melody . |
| 9 | Mr Roberts , having been around lesbians and gay men , was aware of the million-dollar underlying issue : is the Heterosexual Family ‘ natural ’ ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 've always been around dope . |
| 11 | Either he is as simple and as straightforward as he would like us to believe , or he is , as many who have been around him think , so infinitely and deviously smart that , like a fox , he just ca n't be captured . |
| 12 | This personal excursion has been around some favourite isolated hills — there are many others — a few which have given some of my best mountain days . |
| 13 | The Biofilta from Aquarium Systems Ltd has been around a couple of years ( mail order ) . |
| 14 | He had been around the scene for long enough to know how to manipulate meetings without getting everyone 's back up . |
| 15 | Scott has been around the rock and blues circuit in Ireland for some time and has played with many of the top musicians here . |
| 16 | I have n't been around this long without learning that funny things happen to people who know too much about mob business . ’ |
| 17 | When you 've been around guys like Mr. B. awhile , you get to thinking the way they think . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | She could almost smell the rich fermentation of silage like there 'd been around parts of Ecoville , or the green alkali of the air-plants . |
| 21 | ‘ Even I know man has n't been around that long . ’ |
| 22 | Thus , the argument runs , we can not have been around all that long ; otherwise , we would have already progressed more than we have . |
| 23 | OL' MARK Perry 's been around y'know — in at the start , an integral part , remember '77 — but apart from founding the fanzine , Sniffin' Glue , he 's never really made a go of it as a rocker . |
| 24 | Their forensic tests could probably prove it had been around your neck and in my pocket , but it 's been badly mistreated as a piece of evidence . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Frank 's been around the course already , he knew what it would be like if MacQuillan got the Post . ’ |
| 26 | Then I shout Consider the people I 've been around all my life , stylists , models , actors , producers , seat-warmers , air-sniffers , knee-crookers , cuecard-readers , place-men , moneymen — funny men , not straight men . |
| 27 | She had n't been around herself at the time and said Gustav did n't like talking about it much . |
| 28 | Youngest works foreman there 's been around these parts . |
| 29 | She and her husband Felix had been around the London underground since its birth , apart from a sojourn in the backwater of Munich . |
| 30 | Tom 's been around a few years now . |