| And the nurse bustled off towards the other side of the room, busying herself with something else. |
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| Well, I have agreed a fee with the buyer and already solicitors are busying themselves passing bits of paper backwards and forwards. |
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| Ally nodded at him, busying herself by taking a large sip of the ice water that was already sitting in front of her on the table. |
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| I soon settled in for some rigorous study, busying myself with my alternately prone and prostrate experiments. |
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| A mind-set has emerged busying itself with quick fixes, stopping change or shoring up its excesses. |
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| An eighth of a mile from the lake, we spotted two forest rangers 25 feet up the trail, busying themselves around Gilpin Creek. |
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| Imagine, the first thing you see is the fruit counter, where high school hotties are busying themselves arranging the bananas. |
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| To pad out the time, many schools are busying themselves with sports days, school shows, prize-givings, and other sundry activities. |
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| As the installation was underway, I retreated back to the computer and started busying myself with some work. |
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| When already thirty, he decided on a return to basics, busying himself with contrapuntal puzzles, fugues and harmonization of chorales. |
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| As the host nation we have put our best foot forward, busying ourselves with elaborate plans for the arrival of our diverse group of guests. |
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| Silhouettes of women busying themselves in the kitchen are visible in the dimming light. |
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| Ian's boss resembled a manic pack rat, busying himself amongst the stack of paper that crowded the tiny cubicle. |
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| He has watched presidents come and go while busying himself for endless hours creating desserts designed to delight and soothe, mend fences and cement alliances. |
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| When, however, they see us busying ourselves with tractor lights and other trifles, I am sure they are disappointed. |
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| Jonathan, however, was busying himself with a grate in the floor. |
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| Despite busying itself with absolutely everything, the report does not conceal its preferences or selectiveness. |
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| All 8,000 tickets were gone by last Wednesday and the BBC – TV and radio – are busying themselves for a broadside. |
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| The Franco-Russian team are busying away under the high ceiling of the Boussiron hangar. |
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| A train with carriages from a bygone age and a group of volunteers and enthusiasts busying themselves around the metal monsters. |
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| And across the Maritimes and Newfoundland and Labrador, the next crew is busying itself in preparation for departure. |
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| Dan McTeague: The Prime Minister has been busying himself trying to get the non-proliferation treaty issue back on track. |
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| Toyota certainly has, and that is why they have been busying themselves to bring its SUV fuel economy figures down. |
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| Lefever suggested slow, deep breathing, and busying yourself with something that will take attention away from an impending storm. |
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| In the kitchen, while busying myself with what we had come for, I embarked on a long conversation. |
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| We noticed a minibus with inscriptions in Thai and a man busying himself beside it. |
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| Some celebrities have stayed at Claridges for the last couple of nights, where they have been busying themselves trying new hairstyles, make-up, diamonds and outfits. |
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| On a visit to the bright play school last week I found up to 25 children, aged between three and five, busying themselves with educational toys and books. |
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| Throughout the last year people in Swindon and Marlborough have been busying themselves with all sorts of weird and wonderful events to fill the appeal's coffers. |
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| In the experiments, the system load consisted of busying the processors by user computation and triggering a lot of different interruptions in order to maximally activate the inter-locking and the preemption mechanisms. |
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| By all indications, the official March employment report, due out tomorrow, will be very, very bad. G20 leaders are busying themselves with summitry today in London. |
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| That grace of Holy Tuesday has caused me to live, since that day, heaven on earth, though this does not prevent me from busying myself with my numerous occupations, in peace and love. |
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| Ordinary people start busying about their daily lives. |
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| Amazon is busying photographing almost every major US shopping street to create virtual drive-throughs. |
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| I've seen celebrities go to extraordinary lengths to avoid the public in similar situations, but all three of today's hosts are busying around trying to make Charlotte's set visit special. |
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| It is small enough that you can't really stretch your legs, but seeing Christelle busying herself in the open kitchen or Jim cheerily taking your order has a lot to do with the atmosphere. |
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| To that end, he scandalized Confucians of his day, who believed that the elite should not engage in manual labour, by becoming an accomplished metalworker and busying himself with alchemical studies. |
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| Eight years after the historical events which we have just described, the DAM was busying itself with its new tasks which resulted from the application of thermonuclear possibilities to the armaments programmes. |
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| In 1452, knight, guards, cooks and servants are all busying themselves with the preparations for the wedding of Jehanne de Thibouville, the lord of the castle's daughter. |
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