Example sentences of "[been] around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 2 | ‘ On my fourteenth birthday — you 've always been around at the most important moments in my life , Harry . ’ |
| 3 | Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far . |
| 4 | For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 9 | They have been around since Egyptian times , which makes them one of our oldest decorating materials . |
| 10 | The Cobra had only been around since 1962 , but the Ace , on which it was based , dated back to 1953 , when it had been launched at Earls Court . |
| 11 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | Hand dragged furniture had been around since the 18th century . |
| 13 | They are in fact the original Green products having been around since 1959 , and are so good that the company 's turnover is about £1 billion . |
| 14 | The idea of solitary waves travelling along rivers and canals has been around since 1844. it was considered a novelty until the early 1960s , when scientists discovered that two solitary waves travelling in opposite directions need not destroy one another , but could in fact continue unscathed . |
| 15 | We 've never jumped on the bandwagon 'cos it 's clearly going to end in tears , but there 's definitely been a vibe that has n't been around since the days of the Buzzcocks and The Electric Circus . |
| 16 | Sometimes , he assumed the Elder had been around since the Creation . |
| 17 | The two main ‘ attractions ’ , Hawkwind and Planet Gong , have seemingly been around since the dawn of music in one form or another . |
| 18 | Information has been around since the garden of Eden . |
| 19 | Are they recent arrivals from Norway , or birds which have been around since the autumn migration ? |
| 20 | Alright , so it 's been around since the year dot . |
| 21 | Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors . |
| 22 | Research identified that retailers were using cheap methods of display which had been around since the 1950's . |
| 23 | Both are US in origin , the Basler Turbo-67 having been around since 1988 and in ‘ production ’ at Oshkosh , Wisconsin , since 1990 . |
| 24 | Lick and stick stamps have been around since the 1840s , but by the turn of the century it 's thought self-adhesives will be the norm . |
| 25 | Not so surprising , as this is their first official demo , though the group members ( all two of them ! ) have been around on the scene since 1988 . |
| 26 | As we know , the FORM , or pattern shaping , is an integral part of the Electronic E-6000 , but it has been around on Passap System machines as the Form Computer Program for ten years or so , and to many knitters it is still surrounded by mystery and suspicion . |
| 27 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 28 | I have been around to all of them , most of the shops in the town and we will be patrolling all the time . |
| 29 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 30 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |