Sentence examples for there were busy from inspiring English sources

Phone lines there were busy all day, and hundreds of voters traveled downtown in person, spending hours trying to vindicate their right to vote.

The base had come under attack from insurgents and the platoon based there were busy fighting them off when air support was called in, Coroner Derek Winter said.

Today, residents there were busy trying to remove oil from the shores of Tortuga Bay, a popular beach, and the harbor at Puerto Ayora, the main settlement.

He finally moved to the sidewalk, but there were busy streets coming up and he had not paused yet when crossing any side streets.

Or the people there are busy doing something else.

It leaves you feeling that everyone up there is busy and active and you feel very much alone.

Now, people there are busy trying to stop wells, and the increasingly pervasive drilling practice known as fracking.

As for Green Oaks, the home hit by the tornado in Texas, 103 residents recently moved back into the facility, and executives there are busy conducting an analysis of what went right and what could have gone better.

The staff there are busy sorting through thousands of old phones.

If it's in IT, and you can name it desktop, storage, applications, security–someone out there is busy virtualizing it.

But there's busy and then there's busy.