Example sentences of "[verb] been around [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete . |
| 2 | Then the rain which had been around all day drove them inside the house , where , bored , they wandered restlessly though the rooms . |
| 3 | Although the number of vessels engaged in the trade shrank somewhat , the sailing colliers which had been around 100 tons in the seventeenth century were averaging 312 by 1730 . |
| 4 | Our true airspeed at 1500–2000 feet had been around 145 knots at 2200 rpm and 24 ’ manifold with a fuel flow of 11 gallons per hour . |
| 5 | The WHO estimated that , again as of early 1991 , there had been around 6,000,000 HIV infections and 800,000 AIDS cases in adults in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie . |