Example sentences of "[be] busy [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 2 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 3 | Opposition to the Shah 's regime was disparate — fragments of the old National Front , a survival from the times of Mossadeq in the 1940s and 1950s ; a miscellany of resurgent Islamic and minor left-wing groups ; the pro-Moscow Tudeh Party ; disappointed businessmen who perceived the hand of the Shah 's family behind every deal they failed to clinch ; and smaller traders who resented the Shah 's busying himself with high prices in the bazaar . |
| 4 | Zerrer like her assistant Margo , who is busying herself about the Centre supervising clients as they get into their goggles , turns out to be , unsurprisingly , a new age devotee , though she cringes at the mention of the words . |
| 5 | While Steve was busying himself John asked him about the bridge and the strange feeling in the cutting . |
| 6 | Her mother , Valerie Cass , was busying herself , packing things into a small overnight case . |
| 7 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |