Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been busy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Neil had been busy with a small epidemic of low fever which had fortunately missed Vetch Street , and Matey had decided to do some summer cleaning , spring cleaning having been missed out , due to the deficiencies of Sally-Anne 's predecessor . |
| 2 | Alan had been busy and had arranged the cremation for the following Wednesday morning . |
| 3 | Bill Muggeridge , he noted with regret , had been free for the first hour , when Pumfrey and Fenniway had been busy with the Fromes , but was not free again until after lunch . |
| 4 | Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing . |
| 5 | Back at the pub , Connor had been busy serving drinks all the evening , but by this time things were quietening down . |
| 6 | W. C. T. had been busy in other ways too , fathering a series of children ; three at least were to die young , and he took them for burial to his cousins , Baptist Chapel at Worship Street , Shoreditch . |
| 7 | Pat and Sheila had been busy , too . |
| 8 | Madeleine had been busy since her arrival in Paris . |
| 9 | Mr Daubney had been busy with a continuous stream of traffic . |
| 10 | Eachuinn Odhar had been busy with Father Patrick , dictating letters to all parts ; the Abbot of Iona ; the king 's court in Edinburgh ; even Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , at Inveraray ; messages had been going and coming in almost daily by boat and weary runner . |
| 11 | Aunt Bedelia had been busy for days shaping sausage meat into pigs ' testicles and dormice . |