Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] busy [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet for months the world 's promotions industry has been busy marking — and marketing — the event . |
| 2 | Members of the Worcester Park Machine Knitters Club have been busy knitting items for the Special Care Baby Unit at Kingston Hospital in Surrey . |
| 3 | Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing . |
| 4 | Back at the pub , Connor had been busy serving drinks all the evening , but by this time things were quietening down . |
| 5 | PHYSIOTHERAPY experts at Teesside Polytechnic have been busy helping pupils from a Middlesbrough school make a video about the dangers of developing brittle bones through unhealthy diets . |
| 6 | His father had been busy writing about shore larks . |
| 7 | Ludens had been busy helping Irina , what to take , what to buy , how to pack . |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 9 | NATIONAL Union of Students leaders have been busy dining Conservative MPs such as George Walden to lobby against Government plans to introduce voluntary student unions . |
| 10 | Author Salmon Rushdie has been busy Christmas shopping . |
| 11 | When a younger and less sophisticated Hank had come quietly through the back gate in search of the garage , the couple had been busy planting a lilac tree . |
| 12 | The national papers have been busy printing their obiturary and the faithful fans are still in mourning following last Saturday 's dismal defeat against West Hartlepool . |
| 13 | PUPILS at a Birkenhead primary school have been busy raising cash for starving children . |
| 14 | CHILDREN at Ayresome infants school in Middlesbrough have been busy painting the painters . |
| 15 | Novell has been busy writing application programming interfaces to accommodate object-oriented applications , which , it says , will read and distribute objects as packets ( or images ) across the network . |
| 16 | EMI has been busy adding to its ‘ Beecham Edition ’ . |