Example sentences of "i busy [pron] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was not prepared to contemplate such an inconvenient find , so I busied myself elsewhere . |
| 6 | I busied myself on the shore |
| 7 | 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 . |