Example sentences of "busy [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm looking for a partner for this new act , the Double-Take Brothers , ’ he explains as he busies himself with tea-bags and mugs of boiling water in the back offices of Hat Trick , the Soho production company responsible for putting together the series . |
| 2 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 3 | Turnbull busies himself with his clipboard as his reply is translated . |
| 4 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 5 | The pantry displays examples of all the home-made preserves the farmer 's wife would have busied herself with . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the summer of 1937 I had busied myself with journalism and with radio programme production for eight years , and I was becoming restless . |
| 8 | Across from him Chen busied himself at his wife 's side , preparing the meal . |
| 9 | The Careys were also in attendance : Lady Carey glowered whilst her husband busied himself at the far end of the room , totally ignoring our existence . |
| 10 | Kathleen swallowed a lump in her throat , Ben coughed discreetly and Jack busied himself at the X-ray box . |
| 11 | Aileen Gillies was all brisk agreement as she wrapped up some food in a cloth and gave it to them while her husband busied himself with laying the fire . |
| 12 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 13 | As the revelations gathered pace in America strenuous efforts were made to distance the president from the facts , while North busied himself with his office shredder . |
| 14 | Tenison busied himself with gathering up plans and files , which seemed to litter every surface . |
| 15 | While de Sade busied himself with Justine 's backside , Antonin ‘ made an offering to the contrary God ’ . |
| 16 | He busied himself with the electric kettle and a jar of instant coffee , and in a moment or two put the hot drink in front of her . |
| 17 | Behind the desk a single clerk busied himself with paperwork . |
| 18 | The young man said he would tell her when to get off and then busied himself with an oilcan among the driving wheels . |
| 19 | Nigel himself vacillated between belief in and total rejection of death , and busied himself with sorting out his desk and jettisoning surplus papers . |
| 20 | Over the spring of 1791 Mozart busied himself with composition : pieces for mechanical organ ( a fashionable instrument he detested ) ; two string quintets , K.593 in D and K.614 in E flat , both written for private concerts at the homes of wealthy amateurs ; a great deal of dance music — minuets , German dances , etc. — for the court balls ; and a new piano concerto , in B flat , K.595 . |
| 21 | The assistant again busied himself with his calculator . |
| 22 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Connon , ’ he said as he busied himself with the kettle and the jar of instant coffee , ‘ I did n't really have a chance last night to explain myself to you very fully . |
| 24 | Had n't he taken a day off to go fishing , while Adam busied himself with prospective clients ? |
| 25 | The Commander busied himself with his coffee cup : it clinked against his saucer as he picked it up . |
| 26 | Instead , he busied himself about his parish duties . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The coroner busied himself around the house . |
| 29 | Kemalpasazade sought the advice of Mueyyedzade who counselled him to feign acceptance of Hacihasanzade 's proposal ; and when , on the next day , the latter petitioned the sultan , Bayezid II , to appoint Kemalpasazade to a kadilik , Mueyyedzade intervened , speaking highly of Kemalpasazade 's abilities and asking that he not be wasted in a kadilik but rather that he be given the vacant Taslik medrese so that he might busy himself with the pursuit of learning . |
| 30 | Lord Joseph has been interested in the causes of poverty for a long time : as a young man he joined the Howard League for Penal Reform as well as a Quaker group which busied itself about improving the social conditions of the poor . |