Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] own business " in BNC.
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| 1 | I well remember attending an ecumenical garden party , minding my own business and trying to juggle a cup of weak tea and a sinewy rock cake . |
| 2 | I was sat there minding my own business , when all of a sudden that side door opened and sunlight comes flooding in under my ass . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |
| 4 | One day , minding my own business as usual , I was walking down a busy main road in the afternoon when I saw a helmeted security guard standing outside a doorway . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I was with him when the call came in to do the video so I was listening to the call , although I was minding my own business . |
| 6 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 7 | ‘ One day minding my own business in London ; the next , Damian Flint 's new secretary ! ’ |
| 8 | working away not minding my own business |
| 9 | I 'm opening my own business so I need a lot of money |
| 10 | The Business Start-Up scheme , which helps the unemployed in launching their own business , will be extended with the creation of 10,000 new places . |
| 11 | Whether we covet , confine or curse it , the mink is only minding its own business . |
| 12 | The man and his brother were standing on the platform minding their own business . ’ |
| 13 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 14 | Formed from the ashes of various small-time Amsterdam bands , BS had been minding their own business playing local gigs until a friend sent a demo to Gerard Cosloy at Matador Records in America — first home of Teenage Fanclub and currently Superchunk . |
| 15 | EARLY-morning commuters on the A8 were simply minding their own business one day last week when they were set upon and assaulted by a driver who used all the remaining power of his ageing Vauxhall Senator to bludgeon his way in and out of traffic . |
| 16 | During the war he joined the Police force and then worked at Telfers Pie Factory before opening his own business — the Wimbledon Health Food Stores , with his wife , Joan . |
| 17 | In challenging such assumptions the Archbishop is simply minding his own business . |
| 18 | His life had been well-ordered and reasonably happy , he thought , by minding his own business . |
| 19 | I think the end result was that erm I say this man was dead so Married man with four children just coming home from work , minding his own business . |
| 20 | ‘ As far as I could judge , he thought me an incompetent idiot who ought to be minding his own business . |
| 21 | Needless to say , minding his own business was the one thing Ken was not able to do . |
| 22 | He would probably have maintained that minding his own business would never have got him anywhere , least of all starring on radio . |
| 23 | No sulks from United they came back with a bounce … and this should have been 2-1 … the run and shot was down to Chris Pike but the referee gave off-side against Pickard who was minding his own business … bad decision |
| 24 | Aine Murray explained : ‘ My father was driving along minding his own business when the window suddenly came in . |
| 25 | It 's a bit disconcerting to be minding your own business . |
| 26 | We 're on Sixth Avenue , puffing on a prosaic perfecto and minding our own business — when John turns down Twenty-Second Street , breaks into a run , and starts loosening his pants … |
| 27 | Opening your own business are you ? |
| 28 | That 's what she said and she said minding me own business and this she said and this man come up to her and he said have you got |
| 29 | Just minding me own business and I get fucking things thrown at me , timesheet ripped timecard cut . |
| 30 | The process of actually researching and producing their own business plan is regarded by many of the graduates as the most challenging but rewarding aspects of the programme . |