Example Sentences

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So far bankers specializing in share sales have been busying themselves in lining up new IPO candidates and ensuring existing clients are ready when the markets thaw again.

From Reuters • Jan. 20, 2012

"I fancy you have been busying yourselves here with prophesyings," said he: "Gabriele, my child, you shall have your reward for it—read this aloud to your mother!" laying a newspaper before her.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

And you have been busying yourself, I see," continued the mother, looking round her with obvious disapproval, "with matters that do not concern you.

From A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

My people have been busying themselves, it appears, in reporting that I shall return to London directly my health is fully re-established.

From The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith by Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir

I have been busying myself with Sainte-Beuve's seven volumes on the Port Royal development.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher