Example sentences of "busy herself " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The pantry displays examples of all the home-made preserves the farmer 's wife would have busied herself with . |
| 3 | She could busy herself in the garden till then . |
| 4 | He reached for the CV while Catherine Crane busied herself systematically with her papers . |
| 5 | While Mary Ann busied herself in the kitchen , and the uncommunicative Emily disappeared , he took in his surroundings . |
| 6 | Franca naturally busied herself with genuine tasks , of which there were always plenty . |
| 7 | The woman busied herself in the kitchen and produced a plate piled high like a cairn with potatoes , and a huge pot of tea , and then resumed her knitting by the fire opposite her husband . |
| 8 | She busied herself with some clothes . |
| 9 | Two hours later she returned , busied herself in the kitchen and then produced a huge plate loaded with fish and potatoes , and a mammoth pot of tea . |
| 10 | She busied herself with putting on her glasses . |
| 11 | She took the double saucepan from the rack and the packet of oats from the cupboard and busied herself , not looking at him . |
| 12 | Doreen turned her broad kindly face away and busied herself with dinner preparations . |
| 13 | She went inside again and busied herself , filling the cupboards from the bags . |
| 14 | While she busied herself squeezing fresh limes and adding local cane sugar and iced water , he began his pitch . |
| 15 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
| 16 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 17 | She busied herself with her hair , restoring it . |
| 18 | She felt the beginnings of a disastrous blush and busied herself with a dirty mark on the window , getting out her handkerchief and scrubbing , her back to Louise . |
| 19 | Mrs. Mounce busied herself with being kind to Tessa , too . |
| 20 | She did not turn round but busied herself with placing a palmful of incense into the censer and lighting it . |
| 21 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 22 | While Mary-Claude saw to the baby and busied herself around the apartment , Habib made the introductions . |
| 23 | Martha busied herself about the household work during our Lord 's visits . |
| 24 | She had awakened early , busied herself with her bags and , while she had waited for the taxi repeatedly told herself that men were a species that she would avoid at all costs from here on in . |
| 25 | He watched his wife carefully out of the corner of his eye as she busied herself , stacking blankets , opening chests , replacing candles in their holders . |
| 26 | Then she got up , rather stiffly , and busied herself making tea and thin bread and butter , an invariable meal , but always a treat . |
| 27 | Biting her lip hard to prevent herself screaming at him to stop sitting there like some damned great Buddha she busied herself finding soap powder for the machine , and in her agitation knocked the packet over , spilling powder all over the floor . |
| 28 | Marriage had effectively put paid to her career as an actress , and between household tasks she busied herself penning articles protesting at the pressures on people like her to cook beautiful meals and write novels like Margaret Drabble . |
| 29 | Settling herself into her chair , Laura busied herself with pouring out tea . |
| 30 | Ianthe flushed and busied herself with the coffee tray . |