Example sentences of "[be] around [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wo n't be around for the other sessions |
| 2 | In that case , we want to be around for the big money in the fourth , fifth and sixth records . |
| 3 | ‘ I always seem to do my best when the big players are around on the big occasion , not at smaller tournaments like these . ’ |
| 4 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 5 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 6 | Had the paparazzi been around in the early days of his marriage it 's doubtful Philip would have escaped criticism . |
| 7 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 8 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 9 | They are one of the earliest known insects , fossils being around from the Carboniferous period , and today there are some 4,000 species worldwide . |
| 10 | No , it 's around about the off in n it ? |
| 11 | No one who was around in the late 1960s can have avoided the flood of changes which swept through the dress , sexual codes , language , food styles , cinema , literature , music , and other generative aspects of the new counter-culture . |