Example sentences of "'ve been around " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been around along time , however , and there are those , Gavin Friday included , who would put their meandering career down to a Dublin penchant for beer , bars and general untogetherness . |
| 2 | ‘ Look , kid , I 've been around , I know what happens with kids like you . |
| 3 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 6 | ‘ Trouble with you , Pangloss , is you 've been around too long , ’ retorted Peter Panic , staring gloomily into his Perrier-with-a-twist-of-lime . |
| 7 | They know me and Paul and Steve 'cos we 've been around here in this bit of the London Road for three seasons now and they know that we would n't let them down . ’ |
| 8 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been around , ’ she said as they moved out onto the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been around too long to fall for tricks like that . |
| 11 | ‘ And I do it so that people know I 've been around and I 've kept my eyes open . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | If you 're going to use this by by rewarding specific desired behaviour you need to have a look at a reward list and there 's a whole range of potential rewards that 've been around . |
| 15 | Erm I do n't think I did no , oh no they did n't they would n't think of doing that then , but they do now and erm then I , I 've been around at Wiggens the old hall table where people you know , worked in the warehouse there and I 've done all sorts |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Chairman before before you do finally er pack your bag and zoom off back to wherever it is you 're going , could I on behalf of the county council and all of our participants here today and those who 've been around in the last fortnight thank you and Miss Whittaker and your assistant able assistants er Mrs Binns and Dave in the programme office for the sterling work they 've done . |
| 20 | We 've been around now for two and a half years erm we work as support workers , I suppose , like erm community workers or social workers in some contexts . |
| 21 | I 've been around a bit , I 've learned a thing or two , I know the score . |
| 22 | ‘ You latch on to these techniques after you 've been around a bit ’ , he said … |