Example sentences of "be around " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 any , any sort of , yeah , any sort of changes or anything erm er I do n't know if you 're around sort of early next week we can
3 Now they 're around levels found in a noisy office and they 're getting worse .
4 Only I never feel safe when I 'm around you .
5 It 's time you learned how to be around Rosie without making her mad . ’
6 Dorothea realised that she did not know how old Alida was but it must be around her own age .
7 It is important to be around the professionals , the leading players in the world .
8 Although average stocking rates for beef cows would be around one ha/cow it has been demonstrated that 0.4 ha/cow ( 1 acre/ cow ) of productive grassland with moderate nitrogen fertiliser inputs will meet grazing requirements and produce a substantial part of the winter feed requirements .
9 In the distance he could hear the sound of water dripping and he kept a look out for puddles , holes , fallen beams or any other dangers that might be around the next corner .
10 The itching is very troublesome and may be around the vagina with burning soreness and redness .
11 The company has been bought by ABB Kraftwerke , of Mannheim , for a sum believed to be around Dm100 million .
12 The parameters of water should be around 1–6°GH and 1–2°KH .
13 If the fare should be around 20–30p , give 50p .
14 It is great to be around friends who have never had a weight problem and find that I have a lot more energy than them and certainly a lot more breath !
15 The first treatment lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours and costs £25 to £30 ; the follow-up sessions will be around an hour-an-a-half and slightly less expensive .
16 As a general guide , the interval training should be around your best 5K speed and total 12.20 minutes of fast work , and the repetition runs at about 10K speed , totally 15–25 minutes of fast work .
17 And it will probably be around the 19th — a magical day if ever there was one — that a fateful meeting or journey takes place .
18 Prime times for endings and beginnings will be around the full moons of March 8 and November 16 and the eclipses .
19 It is assumed therefore that virtually all children will travel along broadly the same curricular path in English , but that some will move more quickly , and further , than others ; and some may be around the level 1 attainments for the whole of their school careers .
20 ‘ I was n't getting as much attention as I wanted , so I kind of got into Dmitry 's music just to get his attention , and to be around him more ’ — Lady Miss Kier
21 She finally got involved for the oldest reason of all : ‘ I was n't getting as much attention as I wanted , so I kind of got into it just to get his attention , and to be around him more . ’
22 The temperature should be around 80°F .
23 Annual growth to 1996 is expected to be around the 43% mark , reaching $700m in 1996 .
24 Around one hundred galleries are expected to have signed up by the closing date and attendance figures are expected to be around the usual 100,000 .
25 If we assume that our kind of beings will still be around a few millennia hence , I feel certain that the nineteenth century will mainly be remembered as the century when Maxwell formulated his equations .
26 I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be
27 In the schematic dating we apply to this period it seems to be around the last century of the second millennium that an upward turn becomes traceable , notably in pottery and specifically the pottery of Athens .
28 The process should also give you some idea of what your company spends on printing , or at least producing , documents — it will probably be around 8–10% of your turnover , assuming that your company is n't actually in the publishing business in the first place .
29 ‘ What they share and why I like to be around them is they have the capacity for ecstasy which is unusual …
30 Our main European markets would appear to be around the Mediterranean , but with statistics showing that northern European summers are apparently becoming warmer I 've decided to launch our system in the United Kingdom as well . ’
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