Example sentences of "better to do than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you have nothing better to do than prop up buildings , will you kindly go and find yourself a street corner and not clutter up my department ! |
| 2 | As we negotiated the slippery rungs of that staircase , there were always a few interested bystanders with nothing better to do than shout encouraging remarks from time to time , but we soon learnt to ignore them . |
| 3 | Old people are , of course , entitled to the same social courtesies as we are , and it can be very irritating for them if they are made to feel that they are regarded as has-beens who have nothing better to do than to sit around waiting to be visited at our convenience . |
| 4 | ‘ You appear to be familiar with two groups of the old : the wingeing paranoid dimwits who can think of nothing better to do than queue unnecessarily , and the depraved and corrupt denizens of ffeatherstonehaugh 's . |
| 5 | He 's got nothing better to do than keep nagging on about our new garden fence . |
| 6 | I kept one eagle eye out for wardens and policemen with nothing better to do than harass taxi-drivers , but I did n't have to wait long . |
| 7 | For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain . |
| 8 | The recommended muster-signal was a wooden rattle operated by some deserving unemployed person with nothing better to do than run around the town making an incredible racket , as opposed to marching on mansions with a view to burning them down . |
| 9 | And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes . |
| 10 | They have nothing better to do than go down and make a nuisance of themselves to people who are peacefully going about their own affairs . |
| 11 | ‘ You think people have nothing better to do than listen to you . ’ |
| 12 | On one occasion , when George Brown was to give a seminal broadcast on a new financial plan , Wigg , who had been assigned by the Prime Minister to ensure , or to endeavour to ensure , that Brown arrived at Broadcasting House respectably sober , could think of nothing better to do than to consign him in the early afternoon to the sitting-room in my flat at Ashley Gardens . |
| 13 | ‘ We all of us have something better to do than concern ourselves with the tantrums of servants ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Just some stupid , bad tempered old woman with nothing better to do than poke her nose in where she 's no business . ’ |
| 15 | A social dilettante with a hang-up about someone called Lotta , and who had nothing better to do than sleep the daylight hours away , she concluded , despising both the man and his attitude ! |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't you have anything better to do than waste your time where you 're not wanted ? |
| 17 | I am surprised you have nothing better to do than stand in corridors all day . ’ |