Example sentences of "tired of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that , she worked as a secretary , but in 1972 she was really tired of a secretary 's life . |
| 2 | Last year , attendances slumped as fans tired of a proliferation of championships , chaotic organisation , rocketing ticket prices and punch-ups on the pitch . |
| 3 | CONTRACT caterers are sick and tired of the industry-wide view of their sector as nothing but company canteens peopled by ‘ Doris-the-dinner-lady ’ . |
| 4 | He was sick and tired of the name Fanshawe . |
| 5 | He was tired of respectability , tired of the constant tug-of-war to pull the lively minds of children out of the fields and hedges , where wisdom and philosophy began , into the abstractions of formal learning . |
| 6 | After a quarter of a century of divided independence , some West Indian rulers are tired of the insignificance to which miniaturisation condemns them . |
| 7 | Before the last Test it seemed that Gooch would return home , annoyed at an article written about his South African connections by Lester Bird , the Deputy Prime Minister of Antigua , and tired of the hostile receptions he had been getting from press and public . |
| 8 | He had underestimated the new mood of his members who had become sick and tired of the never-ending series of disputes , which they knew in their consciences had been driving the Division ever closer to bankruptcy . |
| 9 | The ‘ miscellaneous ’ sounded weary , as though he were growing tired of the proceedings already . |
| 10 | Thinking about the past , helping to build a cupboard , playing in the village band or photographing the bootmaker and the carpenter , Mr Spender seems contented and within the Tuscany he was looking for when he was , as he says , tired of the ‘ thin blue light of London ’ . |
| 11 | Tories aching for fizz have to accept the meat and two veg reality ; and they may remember that , in the fable , Jupiter grew so tired of the frogs complaining about their uninspiring King Log that he sent down a replacement , King Stork , who ate them all . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no recovery , ’ he sombrely told journalists in Bristol on Friday , ‘ and I think people are getting tired of the Chancellor for saying it . |
| 13 | He was on the move again , whether he had annoyed the proprietor at his cheap hotel by his late night rowdiness , or quarrelled with one of the pimps because the girls staying there posed for him free or simply grown tired of the place , is not clear . |
| 14 | They were both so obsessed with the place , its gossip and rumours and intrigues , that they wanted to spend every possible moment together there , comparing notes , exchanging opinions : who was in , who out , what X said about Y's review of P's book about Q. Well , she was sick and tired of the place , tired of its beautiful architecture housing vanity and paranoia , glad to exchange its hothouse atmosphere for the real if smoky air of Rummidge . |
| 15 | I could have kept on and on , but I just got tired of the crowds , the people getting in the way all the time . |
| 16 | Marr continuously denied stories that he was becoming tired of the attention Morrissey received . |
| 17 | The Arab masses , like their counterparts throughout the so-called Third World , are at boiling point , sick and tired of the hypocrisy , naked aggression , and humiliation of centuries of imperialism . |
| 18 | I get sick and tired of the feminist movement trying to undermine the English language . |
| 19 | By the end of 1987 the group were growing tired of the quarrelsome situation . |
| 20 | This third group of mystics are apparently disenchanted ex-coven members who have grown tired of the ‘ backbiting and bitchiness ’ in the occult . |
| 21 | By the end of 1945 , those of us left in the Forces were all , I think , getting a bit tired of the sameness and predictability of the food which was dished out to us . |
| 22 | It gives a collection of puzzles with odd names ( ‘ Tower of Hanoi with pancakes ’ , ‘ Rooks rampant ’ and ‘ Several times knightly ’ , to mention a few ) which will entertain when you are tired of the ‘ sheer joy ’ of trying to write your own programs . |
| 23 | They are tired of the disruption the affair has brought to their lives and would like to take their money and forget all about criminal charges . |
| 24 | But he was tired of the republic , tired of government by committee . |
| 25 | Perhaps the result of jealousy , some man sickened and tired of the king seducing or pursuing a woman . |
| 26 | The Bishop began to tidy up the parchment rolls in front of him so Corbett , tired of the farce , rose and refilled his goblet . |
| 27 | As it was he had obviously grown tired of the regular struggles and gone off to find someone who gave in more readily . |
| 28 | And if he 's simply got tired of the pressure and gone off for six months to play golf and be with his family , they usually say he 's short of bottle . |
| 29 | Zacco had tired of the siege . |
| 30 | Mr Young looked bored , as if he had tired of the subject a long time ago , but his wife retained her sweet comforting expression without any visible effort . |