Example sentences of "busy [pron] in the " 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 | Unfortunately for Charles , the Director 's job turned out to be beyond his actually rather limited administrative abilities and , unable to assert himself in that field , he busied himself in the teaching side of things . |
| 3 | She could busy herself in the garden till then . |
| 4 | While Mary Ann busied herself in the kitchen , and the uncommunicative Emily disappeared , he took in his surroundings . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I left him , sunk in bliss , and busied myself in the kitchen . |
| 8 | Charlotte was glad of the excuse to leave him and busy herself in the kitchen . |