Example sentences of "busy myself " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the summer of 1937 I had busied myself with journalism and with radio programme production for eight years , and I was becoming restless . |
| 2 | While I busied myself , I listened to what Dad said to Mary . |
| 3 | Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks . |
| 4 | I did n't know very much about barn owls at the time , so I busied myself reading everything I could find on them , in the library and magazines . |
| 5 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 6 | So I busied myself , as I walked , with plans for supper on Monday night , when I hoped that my brother would be here , and I had invited Neil to join us . |
| 7 | I was not prepared to contemplate such an inconvenient find , so I busied myself elsewhere . |
| 8 | I busied myself on the shore |
| 9 | I would marry a beautiful and capable woman like my mother who would look after my house and my children while I busied myself with more important matters in the wider world . |
| 10 | I left him , sunk in bliss , and busied myself in the kitchen . |
| 11 | He was busy , my father , with unfinished canvases from art school , generous manuscripts about Beethoven and Medieval painters , a manual typewriter snug enough to fit upon a window ledge , and soup bowls heaped with cheddar cheese goldfish , gently serenaded by an old electric fan as 1 , in my turn , busied myself with Lego upon that slab of perfect marble . |
| 12 | Then I will retire to some ruined mosque , repair it , and busy myself with my studies . ’ |