Example sentences of "be around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone to be around . |
| 2 | By the end of the 80s , Sinitta had established a stable home life suitable for a dog , even if she was n't always able to be around . |
| 3 | But at least Old Vic is likely to be around next year , when Nashwan will be in residence at the Shadwell Stud of his owner , Hamdan Al Maktoum , vigorously trying to justify a syndication value of £18m . |
| 4 | ORRELL , the North 's only representatives in the Courage First Division , who are anxiously looking for their first League win of the season , can take some comfort from the news that Les Cusworth will not be around to torment them when Leicester visit Edge Hall Road on Saturday week . |
| 5 | Yesterday , in Tokyo , she indicated that she may be around for a little while longer than expected . |
| 6 | I believe that the more promoters to whom agents sell acts that lose money , the less people there will be around to do business with . |
| 7 | In that case , we want to be around for the big money in the fourth , fifth and sixth records . |
| 8 | Then , on one occasion , Malcolm happened to be around when they came in . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll take her out more , ’ Erika thought , and then realised that she might not be around to do so . |
| 10 | Enter stage right disc jockey Jimmy Franks of BRMB , local independent radio in Birmingham , the only chap who happens to be around when I phone to see if anyone there could help me out . |
| 11 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 12 | It was basically a group of people who happened to be around but very soon we all had titles and were constantly organising and re-organising the creating divisions and systems and methods . |
| 13 | Later , Mr Howie forecast that the boards would still be around in four years ' time . |
| 14 | We knew Compaq would be around and it would be a technically healthy upgrade not a guddle . ’ |
| 15 | Her age and her resilience suggest that she will be around at the top for at least another Olympiad . |
| 16 | ‘ And I would n't like to be around when it happens . ’ |
| 17 | I wo n't be around ’ . |
| 18 | Fortunately they are few in number , but I 'm sorry to say they will always be around . |
| 19 | But it will probably be around the time of the Full Moon on the 14th that you decide enough is enough and when you realise that success , solace or excitement can only be found in a different setting . |
| 20 | They are really good fun to be around , they are just not overindulgent or obsessive , ’ he says . |
| 21 | ‘ But to go out on a limb and take any bunch of morons , just those that happened to be around when he met Plumpton , and propose that they should do this thing — that 's really sticking your neck out . |
| 22 | When you involve the child with the baby — a desirable strategy — be around to supervise and model ( demonstrate ) appropriate behaviour . |
| 23 | Throughout his career he seemed to be around when it happened but the finger of accusation rarely pointed in his direction . |
| 24 | He did not want to be around when they told him ; he had enough to do without becoming involved in a domestic squabble . |
| 25 | Up to times as little as unc after the big bang , the Universe would have been hot ( energetic ) enough to create magnetic monopoles , and some of these should still be around . |
| 26 | Such people , in Clarke 's view , exhibit either a failure of nerve or of imagination , History is littered with examples of eminences who said such items as the aeroplane or the telephone were impossible , Yet Clarke himself demonstrates , unwittingly perhaps another well-known human maxim : if something can go wrong , it probably will , Thus in his 1962 edition , he predicts that nuclear rockets , translating machines and efficient energy storage devices would be around by 1970 . |
| 27 | ‘ The water is rising all the time and I would n't like to be around when it does overflow . |
| 28 | But if you were old enough to be around at the time , reactions like ‘ Well , of course , the political circumstances were such that … ’ , and ‘ Yes , I have to admit I took offence to that ’ are more likely , and cause one to take a more considered and less dogmatic view . |
| 29 | I 'm told , though , that she went with some relief — because she would n't be around to witness what promised to be the ghastly ignominy of election day . |
| 30 | Then something by The Detroit Spinners — ‘ I 'll Be Around ’ or ‘ Games People Play ’ . |