Sentence examples for time was busy from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bolton, a postgraduate fellow at the time, was busy painting in a studio on the same floor.

She lived near Fontainebleau with her grandmother Teeny, who at the time was busy managing the Duchamp estate.

Myners said the government at the time was busy trying to ensure that banks were able to fund themselves.

As Wednesday morning dawned with no sign of resolution from the government, Lenny Burridge, 47, who works in the safety office of Washington's Air Route Travel Control Center and plays blues guitar in his spare time, was busy planning a gig called "Lenny's Furlough Party" at the MacDowell Brew Kitchen, a pub known as The Beach, in Leesburg, Va.

The Minister — of course, he wasn't a Minister at that time — was busy going over the house, running his finger along ledges for dust and inspecting dinner services that hadn't been in use for twenty years, while Biju and I rested after our journey in the small red sitting room.

By contrast, most other designers at the time were busy focusing on glitter and glamor.

In wine areas harvest time is busy, marked by both celebration and frenetic gathering.

This was without any consultation with the emergency services on scene, who I felt at the time were busy performing other tasks.

"Not the politically obsessed public, the people like us, but the people who most of the time are busy getting on with their lives, not thinking about politics".

While the governor and legislative negotiators work on closing the deficit gap, the New York State Legislature, never a particularly inspiring place at any time, is busy with its end-of-session election-year mischief.

You feel you are engaged from time to time, am busier than I was".