otherwise engaged
otherwise occupied

What's another week when you're in love and the best man is otherwise engaged?

I have been otherwise engaged for the last two years.

Several other possible candidates are also otherwise engaged until next spring.

It happened, however, that he was otherwise engaged late in the afternoon.

He looked to his superiors, but they were otherwise engaged.

I repeated the message and let her know that you were otherwise engaged.

In the new play, Simon's emotions are still otherwise engaged.

The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged.

The Voice had been ingenious enough to take control of his body when he was otherwise engaged.

"Thank you for your kind offer, but I'm otherwise engaged.

I'll work on it a little more while you're otherwise engaged."

She was present when needed and otherwise engaged when not.

Had to tell him that I was otherwise engaged this evening."

Even the staff has the same "otherwise engaged" air that prevailed during past visits.

But the two actors were otherwise engaged - directing their own short films.

But Isaac had a reasonably good idea what was keeping them otherwise engaged.

Without the Internet, a slew of day traders might be otherwise engaged.

I guess all the proper journalists at the Guardian were otherwise engaged.

In 2009, over 12,000 students viewed or were otherwise engaged by Enlighten programs.

I trust you are not otherwise engaged for tonight, Jason?"

This meant that if he did show up at 9:00, I was otherwise engaged and unable to accompany him.

Perhaps it is taking its revenge on museums that have been mostly otherwise engaged this season.

Probably; the fact was that all her feelings had been otherwise engaged at the time-and still were.

Murder had been done, by day, while The Shadow was otherwise engaged.

I waved him a cheery farewell, but he was otherwise engaged.