Example sentences of "busied myself " in BNC.
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1 | While I busied myself , I listened to what Dad said to Mary . |
2 | Frankie read his tattered old comic and I busied myself with the crocks . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I was not prepared to contemplate such an inconvenient find , so I busied myself elsewhere . |
7 | I busied myself on the shore |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I left him , sunk in bliss , and busied myself in the kitchen . |
10 | 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 . |