Example sentences of "busy [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm looking for a partner for this new act , the Double-Take Brothers , ’ he explains as he busies himself with tea-bags and mugs of boiling water in the back offices of Hat Trick , the Soho production company responsible for putting together the series . |
| 2 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 3 | As well as writing soundtracks — his latest , the music for a TV documentary on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright — he busies himself playing with no less than three other outfits . |
| 4 | Turnbull busies himself with his clipboard as his reply is translated . |
| 5 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 6 | It was after ten when the long day ended , the king having busied himself visiting the wounded , including those from the enemy army ; he had , it soon appeared , decisively won the Battle of the Boyne for the loss of 500 men ; James 's casualties were put at 1600 . |
| 7 | Eltharion accepted and has busied himself strengthening the land of Yvresse ever since . |
| 8 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 9 | That is left for members of the host community to do , as it busies itself ghettoizing the minority ; and as it ghettoizes it mumbles , and if you listen carefully you can just discern beneath the self-righteousness , the self-congratulation , the following : ‘ Okay , okay , so you were having a hard time in your own country . |
| 10 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 11 | The pantry displays examples of all the home-made preserves the farmer 's wife would have busied herself with . |
| 12 | By the summer of 1937 I had busied myself with journalism and with radio programme production for eight years , and I was becoming restless . |
| 13 | Until recently Chandler have busied themselves producing guitar parts and accessories — everything from high-quality necks and exotic wood bodies to various pickups and just about every guitar-orientated nut and bolt you can think of . |
| 14 | He tore one of Mum 's dusters into strips for this purpose and we busied ourselves counting out sticks and piling up bundles . |
| 15 | Unfortunately for Charles , the Director 's job turned out to be beyond his actually rather limited administrative abilities and , unable to assert himself in that field , he busied himself in the teaching side of things . |
| 16 | Aileen Gillies was all brisk agreement as she wrapped up some food in a cloth and gave it to them while her husband busied himself with laying the fire . |
| 17 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 18 | As the revelations gathered pace in America strenuous efforts were made to distance the president from the facts , while North busied himself with his office shredder . |
| 19 | Tenison busied himself with gathering up plans and files , which seemed to litter every surface . |
| 20 | As Knocker busied himself filling the bottles , Herbie turned to his main adversary . |
| 21 | While de Sade busied himself with Justine 's backside , Antonin ‘ made an offering to the contrary God ’ . |
| 22 | He busied himself adjusting his leathers . |
| 23 | In the desert , as his wartime despatches show , he was entranced by the conviction that he was controlling the Arabs without their even realizing it ; in his self-imposed obscurity after the war he busied himself secretly , though not too secretly , with pulling strings . |
| 24 | Manville busied himself preparing the messages for despatch . |
| 25 | He busied himself with the electric kettle and a jar of instant coffee , and in a moment or two put the hot drink in front of her . |
| 26 | Behind the desk a single clerk busied himself with paperwork . |
| 27 | The young man said he would tell her when to get off and then busied himself with an oilcan among the driving wheels . |
| 28 | Nigel himself vacillated between belief in and total rejection of death , and busied himself with sorting out his desk and jettisoning surplus papers . |
| 29 | Over the spring of 1791 Mozart busied himself with composition : pieces for mechanical organ ( a fashionable instrument he detested ) ; two string quintets , K.593 in D and K.614 in E flat , both written for private concerts at the homes of wealthy amateurs ; a great deal of dance music — minuets , German dances , etc. — for the court balls ; and a new piano concerto , in B flat , K.595 . |
| 30 | The assistant again busied himself with his calculator . |