Example Sentences

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She said she had been "minding her own business at home" at the time of the incident in Liverpool, and that the situation had been "scary".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

He told me that he had been minding his own business in Harlingen, Texas, in 1996, when recruiters for I.B.P., a major meat packer, came through town, trying to lure workers to Iowa.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

Luis' mother had been minding the babies after a fashion since they were born last month.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were several of us, strangers to each other, who hitherto had been minding our own business, but under the stress of this untoward thing became companionable.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 by Various

Hampstead had never heard of Gruby and Inderwald, and wished that the stout man had been minding his business at that moment.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony