Sentence examples for had not been around from inspiring English sources

"The club would have gone bust many times if I had not been around," he said.

He had not been around much at home, sometimes waking up the children at night to play with them.

Some participants stating that the procedure had not been around long enough to make widespread claims about its effectiveness: "I haven't heard of any research that is saying that it does help people to keep it off.

Customers can only wish that they, too, had not been around in those days.

The bank's leaders presumably were able to argue that they had not been around when the tax-evasion scheme was launched.

DePodesta said on Tuesday that he did not know whether the Mets had diverged significantly from their past behavior, because he had not been around.

BERNIE: You think she hadn't been around?

But we were lucky: he hadn't been around much lately.

If Terry hadn't been around, they may have been forgotten".

"I wondered why she hadn't been around much lately," said Kate. "That changes everything.

If we hadn't been around, he would have been dead a lot earlier".