Example sentences of "be [adv] around [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The golden boys , those who never give the bad news , who make sure that when the plant breaks down they are not available to inform anybody , and have made absolutely certain they were n't around during the run-up to such a disaster , are rewarded . |
| 2 | The delicious Rob Walker who , in a journalistic disguise , was and is still around in the sport , must be the only other man I ever met in FI who while at the heart of the sport never took it with the grim tenacity with which the more parvenu consider the business of winning and losing . |
| 3 | Probably she had some old typing paper of Walter 's still around in the attic , so she could make them look convincing . |
| 4 | Some bands stay up most of the night and that is why they are never around during the day . |
| 5 | Well one of the things that I think has been very striking about John Major , and unfortunately again I 'm comparing him with Mrs. Thatcher , but it 's very difficult not to , thank goodness she was n't around during the Gulf war — that 's my feeling — because I do n't think I could have borne the idea of erm any more rejoice and up an atom and things like that . |
| 6 | But I 'm awfully glad I was n't around for the city 's arrival . |