Example sentences of "thing [verb] 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 | With a stuffed-to-capacity briefcase , she had better things to do with her time too , anyway . |
| 3 | For one thing they 've got better things to do with their time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You would think he had better things to do with his time . |
| 6 | Better things to do with me time than sit and watch the up and down street . |
| 7 | Even if it was n't dangerous , it was certainly silly and I could think of better things to do with my time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've got better things to do with my time than speculate on men who look like pirates and have eyes like Lucifer . |