Example sentences of "was busy [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next few days he was busy making size , painting signs and colouring the room and ‘ hooking . ’ |
| 2 | She went to the kitchen , where the dedicated housekeeper was busy making batches of tiny delicacies for tomorrow 's drinks . |
| 3 | He was busy negotiating alliances with the Spanish kingdoms , receiving oaths of homage from all his Gascon vassals , conducting a great inquiry into feudal tenures in Gascony ( the so-called Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 ) , which had parallels with the Hundred Rolls and Quo Warranto proceedings in England , and summoning assemblies of the three estates of the duchy , and of the ‘ court of Gascony ’ to adjudicate ( among other things ) the case of Gaston de Béarn . |
| 4 | But obviously they cut no ice with a Conservative government that was busy dismantling wartime controls and reviving the notion of ‘ choice ’ in people 's everyday lives . |
| 5 | By 1907 , the CUB , acting on a plan initiated by W. H. Beveridge , was busy opening exchanges in every London borough , each of which made special provision for women and juveniles , and provided vocational guidance for school-leavers through working in co-operation with the ASEA and the Education Department of the LCC . |
| 6 | A sprinkling of members was busy ordering drinks and as soon as we approached the bar , there was a chorus of ‘ Welcome back , Captain ! ’ or ‘ Good to see you , Bill ’ . |
| 7 | Fred was busy cutting meat into small cubes and he ignored his helper 's comment . |
| 8 | Well away from the clamour of the market , farmer Clifford Adams was busy cutting mistletoe in the same way as his father and grandfather before him . |
| 9 | The young child was more interested in her father who was busy cutting slabs of meat into small portions for the next day 's pies . |
| 10 | There he generously offered it to the Magistrate , who was busy carrying cartridges to the firing-step . |
| 11 | Daniel looked at Grace , who was busy helping Mrs Dawson . |
| 12 | IT IS ironic that Prince Philip was attending a conference of the Worldwide Fund for Nature in Buenos Aires last week while Prince Charles was busy shooting pheasants at Sandringham . |
| 13 | It 's lit again at the moment , but so far we 've had something like fifteen bulbs stolen , and when that heavy rain comes , it fills the little cups and goes bang and the gentleman today , was busy drilling things out of the fuse box , where I think it had gone again . |
| 14 | Less than a month separates the publisher 's acceptance of the book and Nietzsche 's completion of the revision ; and during part of this time he was busy preparing lectures on Plato and , unexpectedly enough , on Latin epigraphy . " |
| 15 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 16 | Bill recalls that ‘ even on our honeymoon in Norfolk she was busy buying pieces of furniture ’ . |
| 17 | Over the next few days the press was busy reporting doubts about the political wisdom of abolishing SERPS among ‘ ministers and Conservative MPs ’ while the Opposition tabled a censure motion calling on the Government to withdraw its plans to abolish SERPS and its ‘ callous dismantling of the Welfare State ’ . |
| 18 | The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston . |
| 19 | Biddy , in her neat little black dress , was busy serving food . |