Busies

There's the usual prefatory shenanigans with father Pod (Christopher Eccleston) mountain-climbing the stairs to get into a tin of Quality Street, while his bored teenager Arrietty (Aisling Loftus) sulks in her sleeping bag (a hiking sock) and missus Homily (Sharon Horgan) busies herself in a kitchenette fashioned from pencil stubs and bottle tops. ❋ Unknown (2011)

More One Cold-Eyed Opener Granderson Puts the Hurt on the Tigers Graphic : Opening Day in the Bronx Now he busies himself with coaching his sons in football, baseball, and basketball, picking them up from school, and doing it without the pressures of baseball hanging over his head. ❋ Daniel Barbarisi (2011)

She lowers her head, busies herself looking through the appointment book. ❋ Cairo (2011)

As he is being transported back to a very visible base to be flown back to HQ, he busies himself bullshitting the troops about how he managed to single-handedly take out the enemy forces in the area. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Samina busies herself with sorting out nappies, determined not to look. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Dorothy, a war widow, is a painfully uptight figure who busies herself with household affairs and who even regards wearing a pinny in front of visitors as a breach of decorum. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She busies herself reading and responding back, which shuts her up for a while. ❋ Cairo (2011)

Albert understands this to mean the end of the world, and busies himself by zealously spreading news of it. ❋ Paul Genders (2011)

Meanwhile, Gloria busies herself with Columbian cuisine in tribute to her late grandmother and Claire over-mothers brianiac daughter Alex when she learns of her crush on a boy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By this point, Cattrall's Cleopatra has been so finely gauged, so quick to switch between histrionics, coquetry and calculation (when Antony is absent she settles spectacles on her nose, a chair at her desk and busies herself signing papers of state) that we still cannot tell whether she loves him or not. ❋ Clare Brennan (2010)

Henthorn busies himself by walking the perimeter of the entire crowd, roughly three miles, in search of portable toilets to which he can direct his charges. ❋ Bill Donahue (2010)

To address some comments: ISS's orbit is no 'backwater LEO'; Actually it's 'prime LEO' in some sense (i.e. earth observation, busies launch sites accessibility) ❋ Unknown (2009)

So now we wait for the judge's verdict, while the government busies itself trying to keep another beige citizen out of Canada, Omar Khadr. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We know that they're not as engaged in the "innovation" that Wall Street busies itself with. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Hired," MTV's helpful but slightly irritating new series, comes from the side of MTV that I like, which busies itself documenting the lives of teenagers and freshly minted adults. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hornchurch lad [ripping] off good [folk] for a quick make..."[Business is Business]" ❋ Cw325i (2010)

If [a dude] comes and talks to you and you think he is [ugly] you tell [your friends] "that's NOT the business" ❋ Babygyrl (2005)

[Dude], you have no business being out [in public] after what you just [pulled]. ❋ Dalbort (2007)

[thugger]’s [album] business is business is my [aoty] so far! FREESEX🐍 ❋ Lmaoooderek (2023)

Girl: Hey, you're [on vacation] this week right? Wanna come over and hang out? Guy: [Ummm] sorry I can't; [I'm busy] ❋ Bitter-girl (2008)

My [panties] are all [bunched up] in my [business] today. ❋ Flutter (2006)

That [party] last night was the business. That new [outfit] I [bought] is the business ❋ "D" Dog (2005)

Busy [Singaporeans] are like rush-ians, [who’re] [perpetually] at war against time. ❋ Fasters (2023)

I'm so busy that I can't [keep up with] all [my phone] calls and [emails]! I am so important. ❋ . (2003)

"Dude, that [basketball game] was [the business]." "Bro, [check out] that girl, shes the business." "That was the business!!" ❋ Wezley1111 (2008)