Example sentences of "busy at " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Some say this is in fact useful because it keeps people busy at a time when , as we have seen , it is probably too painful to have time on your hands to sit and reflect .
2 There are many oil and watercolour artists busy at work in all parts of the Highlands just now — several of them being at Iona . ’
3 An air of emergency was reflected in the men busy at the large illuminated translucent plot that dominated the end of the room , at the messengers disappearing through doors and at telephones giving out their muted urgent calls .
4 Although many Carlists and Falangists naturally disliked the Unification , with their fighting men busy at the front there was little they could do to resist it , especially since they shared the general Nationalist respect for ‘ authority ’ .
5 from people busy at cutting
6 Were they really busy at work Dave ?
  Next page