Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [be] around for a " in BNC.
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1 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
2 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
3 | ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |