Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 2 | Not on your life — I 've been hanging around the set of Bedroom Farce hoping Chris 'll come back from the bar . |
| 3 | It was too mortifying for words , and it intensified the vulnerable feeling she 'd been experiencing around Guy Sterne . |
| 4 | For the past 4 days , they 've been working around the clock and through the night . |
| 5 | Social embarrassment , duly fictionalised , is an odd commodity to export , and it does not figure in official balance-of-payments figures ; but it has been selling around the world since Fielding 's Tom Jones and Scott 's Waverley , not to mention Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster . |
| 6 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 7 | I should think he is tired , he 's been running around this field , he 's been at deep square leg , at third man and everywhere and he just gave me that blank stare . |
| 8 | Even though he 's been travelling around the world , he 's kept up with what 's going on back home . |