Example sentences of "been [adv] busy " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your Grace , Master Corbett has been most busy . |
| 2 | If the women had been less busy she might have been seen while she was exploring , but with Lady Marion 's own baby due soon they had plenty of fine weaving and sewing to occupy their eyes . |
| 3 | But you know I 've been terribly busy lately ! |
| 4 | The telephone lines of companies such as Thew Engineering , when the share price was going down , have been constantly busy with shareholders trying to find out what 's going on . |
| 5 | ‘ Our sales staff have been extremely busy contacting people to tell them that this definitely is the best time to buy a car . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been so busy . |
| 7 | He 's been so busy catching murderers we 've hardly seen each other for three weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ We did say we 'd limit him to thirty mares as he 's been so busy competing , but somehow we managed to allow our arms to be twisted a few times . |
| 9 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 10 | She 'd been so busy with her own thoughts she 'd forgotten that side of things . |
| 11 | I 'd been so busy I 'd had no time to think . |
| 12 | George Soloway has been so busy making money that he has been unable ‘ to commit himself to another human being ’ . |
| 13 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 14 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 15 | ‘ But I have been so busy . |
| 16 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 17 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |
| 18 | The boy answered , ‘ No sir , I really have n't had time because I 've been so busy working . ’ |
| 19 | Lately , you 've been so busy bullshitting your way through the world that you 've started swallowing the stuff yourself . |
| 20 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |
| 21 | Here in Ulster , we 've been so busy saying that we are British that we have lost our true identity . |
| 22 | If I 'd known , ’ said Cadfael dubiously , ‘ that you were going to bring her back safely , and no great harm done , I might not have been so busy about worrying out how she ever went astray . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was just about to ring you , dear , to see if we could pop over for the day , just to say goodbye — but I 've been so busy these last few days , what with one thing and another . |
| 24 | They had been so busy collecting the birds and tying them up . |
| 25 | But the only reason for that relatively peaceful state of affairs was , quite simply , that Lisa had been so busy that their paths had very rarely crossed . |
| 26 | ‘ Witch , ’ he told her , his face relaxed , boyish , showing the easy charm that she had not known he possessed while they had been so busy provoking each other . |
| 27 | He rode away complacently , sure of his countrymen , whose deaths he had been so busy arranging , and meant to buy as cheaply as possible . |
| 28 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 29 | Peter Eade had never been so busy in his life , answering telephone calls , personal visitors and piles of letters that came with scripts for Ken 's attention . |
| 30 | She had been so busy avoiding touching him , she had not even noticed it was there . |