Example sentences of "[to-vb] with [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 2 | ‘ Otherwise what 's she going to do with her time , poor girl ? |
| 3 | With a stuffed-to-capacity briefcase , she had better things to do with her time too , anyway . |
| 4 | For one thing they 've got better things to do with their time . |
| 5 | But the gas has been cut off , which is an appalling piece of vindictiveness on the part of some public servant who ought to know that writers of talent have better things to do with their time than remember dates on bits of paper delivered in brown envelopes like a trade circular . |
| 6 | Something had to be found for the men to do with their time , so someone had the bright idea of introducing ‘ Cook 's Tours ’ — trips over France and Germany in a Lancaster for any of the non-flying staff who cared to take advantage of it , including Waafs . |
| 7 | Any doubt there may be that the family disease is a genuine addictive disease is dispelled when the divorced wife of a primary sufferer promptly marries another or when the parents of young sufferers find themselves depressed and lonely and wondering what to do with their time and experience once their own primary sufferer is in recovery . |
| 8 | All the pilots were different but they all had a common theme , giving people who were out of work something worthwhile to do with their time . |
| 9 | Better things to do with me time than sit and watch the up and down street . |
| 10 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 11 | Even if it was n't dangerous , it was certainly silly and I could think of better things to do with my time . |
| 12 | Here , it 's do this , señorita , do that , señorita , as if I 'm a half-witted adolescent with nothing else to do with my time . |
| 13 | I 've always had better things to do with my time than to plot hypothetical revenge for something that happened ten years ago ! ’ she snapped . |
| 14 | I 've got better things to do with my time than speculate on men who look like pirates and have eyes like Lucifer . |
| 15 | ‘ And always the possibility he was killed because of something to do with his time in the secret service . ’ |
| 16 | He 's lonely as hell , poor old bugger , and does n't know what to do with his time . |
| 17 | You would think he had better things to do with his time . |
| 18 | ‘ Have n't you got anything better to do with your time ? ’ |