Example sentences of "[adv] around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right yes and erm it was all er , now it is more , more mechanized , but still , they 're still , I do n't know whether they still do it cos I have n't been around Squires I do n't know whether they 'd do casting now , I have n't been down around for years and years , when I erm when I left and then I went into the leather trade and er started to learn leather cutting |
| 2 | She had to sit down , she thought , looking dazedly around for a chair . |
| 3 | ‘ But I do n't think any of my companies are going to collapse simply because I 'm not around for a short time . |
| 4 | Well he 's not around for a while is he ? |
| 5 | The possibilities opened up are exceptionally exciting and realisable provided certain strange notions of academic freedom ( in this case often amounting to a student fishing desperately around for an ‘ original ’ and totally useless subject like the history of his old school ) , can be avoided . |
| 6 | She looked desperately around for Gabriel . |
| 7 | He looked desperately around for a weapon , picked up a bowl of hot soup and threw it at Edgar , who started screaming . |
| 8 | can hassle anybody who still around for phone directories and so on . |
| 9 | I hope she is still around for quite a few more years . ’ |
| 10 | Robyn rummaged frantically around for her shoes . |
| 11 | They were streaming through the connecting door , muttering discontentedly and clutching their books and papers as they looked hopelessly around for somewhere to sit . |
| 12 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 13 | Lucie began to look nervously around for fear it was part of an ambush by footpads . |
| 14 | I looked woozily around for Mr and Mrs Gould but there was no sign of them . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , she was n't around for very long . |
| 16 | But I 'm awfully glad I was n't around for the city 's arrival . |
| 17 | It was after myxomatosis ; there had not been a rabbit in that field or anywhere around for years . |