The dead lay where they fell now, for there were not enough men to throw them overboard, or rather the men who remained were too busy fighting.
Handling those odds and ends will be a cinch while Croom's guards are all busy fighting.
The phrase drew a thin smile from R. "Even if we hadn't been busy fighting, I would have preferred to bring him out.
"They'd be too busy fighting," Neelix replied.
Nearly half the district's 28 schools lack a principal, an assistant principal or both, because board members have been too busy fighting among themselves to fill the 18 vacancies.
While not busy fighting, they compete in beauty contest in a neverending struggle to find who is the most beautiful.
Roiya is knowledgeable military leader and has to take command sometimes when Sam is too busy fighting (or gone).
And those who weren't busy fighting were . . . well, courting and sparking.
All of a sudden, I started wondering if people had time to spray fertilizer when they were all busy fighting.
Thomas is busy fighting.