Example sentences of "busying [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the Permanently Interrupted man , the man who , willy nilly , Got Involved , busying himself with trifles to avoid doing what really mattered . |
| 2 | As he sat there breakfasting with his younger brother , he watched his father busying himself in an unusual way . |
| 3 | The whole episode was clearly a great embarrassment to my father , and by the time of that conversation in Lord Darlington 's study , he had long since returned to busying himself as much as ever . |
| 4 | He dropped to his knees , busying himself with adjusting the drop of the trousers from Tzann 's inside leg and fighting the irrational and childish desire to jab a pin into his testicles . |
| 5 | He also quit cocaine , busying himself by working in the prison library . |
| 6 | While Steve was busying himself John asked him about the bridge and the strange feeling in the cutting . |
| 7 | Confounded by this reply , Oscar looked across at the other man to see that he was n't looking at the stars at all , but was still busying himself with the body . |
| 8 | In 1867 he became minister to the Borough New synagogue , south London , a post which he combined with a variety of Jewish and non-Jewish charitable and philanthropic endeavours , whilst busying himself also as a prison visitor . |
| 9 | He turned back , for a while busying himself preparing the food . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 12 | ‘ The poor man had a seizure , ’ she continued , busying herself at the blankets . |
| 13 | It was ajar and he could see the young woman busying herself with chores before reopening the shop for the afternoon trade . |
| 14 | Do n't be shy , I 'm not going ter eat yer , ’ she said , busying herself untying the parcels she had with her . |
| 15 | She smiled , busying herself with my purchases as she spoke . |
| 16 | Sara Gomer , lacking any match practice after busying herself moving house , lost 6–3 , 6–2 to wild card Louise Field , and Samantha Smith , also lacking match practice because of a cold , lost to Kimberly Po . |
| 17 | They settled on the terrace , Fei Yen busying herself laying out the table while Wu Tsai sat and made pleasant conversation with Tsu Ma . |
| 18 | Her mother , Valerie Cass , was busying herself , packing things into a small overnight case . |
| 19 | She turned away from his probing eyes , busying herself by filling the kettle at the sink . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Uh-huh , ’ she said , busying herself with miners ' lamps , old spectacle cases and various china oddments which had ‘ A souvenir of Cromer ’ stamped on the bottom . |
| 22 | She and her husband moved to Essex after the first of the three children was born , and have stayed in the same house since , Mary busying herself with a multitude of activities locally , and now caring for her husband since his stroke . |
| 23 | When they went into his house , ‘ where their best entertainment was his quiet company ‘ , his wife continually interrupted their conversation by busying him with domestic duties . |
| 24 | They lived together peaceably enough , busying themselves with good works and their neighbours ' affairs , and collecting objets d'art for their overcrowded gem of a house with a ruthless zeal which was a byword for miles around . |
| 25 | Excavation suggest that before this , Castle Dore was the centre of a large community made wealthy by the trade in tin and iron , as well as busying themselves with agriculture . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? ) . |
| 28 | They had come to help Mary dress but there was no room at all when they started busying themselves . |
| 29 | Work was stratified , resulting in the most inexperienced and least qualified nurses delivering practical nursing care to the patient while senior nurses planned , organised and coordinated this activity from the nurses ' station , thus controlling the work while busying themselves with administrative duties . |
| 30 | Other men bustled around on the wide dock area , busying themselves . |