Example sentences of "have be around " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been around the world with him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Biofilta from Aquarium Systems Ltd has been around a couple of years ( mail order ) . |
| 4 | Scott has been around the rock and blues circuit in Ireland for some time and has played with many of the top musicians here . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Futch has been around boxing most of his life and he knows what an underdog can do if he gains confidence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus , the argument runs , we can not have been around all that long ; otherwise , we would have already progressed more than we have . |
| 9 | as if to illustrate this point I recently spoke to an angler on the Ribble and judging by the distance he held his hands apart — ’ Like this they were ! ’ — his recent catch of ’ two pounders ’ could easily have been around the 6lb mark ! |
| 10 | If he was Sorrel 's father , then he must have been around his mid-forties at least , but he 'd worn well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Roberts , having been around lesbians and gay men , was aware of the million-dollar underlying issue : is the Heterosexual Family ‘ natural ’ ? |
| 14 | The total volume of French defence spending for the period 1990-93 which was to have been around F470,000 million , ( in line with a 1987 law providing for a 6 per cent annual growth rate in real terms ) , was to be cut by approximately F42,000 million . |
| 15 | But anyway , a lot of the detail , a lot of the detail seems to have been around the , the , the words that have , have , have been used in the document , but I 'll ask Paul to specifically respond to that . |
| 16 | ‘ Ernie ’ had been around horses all his life . |
| 17 | He had been around the scene for long enough to know how to manipulate meetings without getting everyone 's back up . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | She and her husband Felix had been around the London underground since its birth , apart from a sojourn in the backwater of Munich . |
| 20 | It then took me a while to realise the significance of it , but at last I remembered it had been around Dora Belle 's neck , the person who murdered Perk and she must have placed it in Perk 's hand when she buried her . |
| 21 | When you 've been around guys like Mr. B. awhile , you get to thinking the way they think . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When you 've been around those guys a lot , you notice that they 're performers and that they perform for you . |
| 24 | In fact , he is one of the best professionals I have ever played with — and I 've been around a few years ! ’ |
| 25 | we know we 've had especially when you 've been around it to , ooh |
| 26 | I 've been around this house for |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Since most of our reporters have been around not nearly so long , last week 's story that mistakenly located the Cumberland Arms in Coronation was understandable . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , it 's been around the common room for some time now . ’ |