Example sentences of "tired of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people are sick and tired of seeing on the television , hearing on the radio and seeing in the press the fairy stories that the Secretary of State keeps preaching from the Dispatch Box . |
| 2 | Elsewhere members of the public had experienced odours from one source for over 20 years ; needless to say even the most persistent critic became tired of complaining over the years . |
| 3 | After a while Moran tired of looking at the newspapers and went outside though it was almost night . |
| 4 | Tired of looking at the blank wall at the side of the house , he asked students from the Cheltenham Art College to submit ideas on decoration . |
| 5 | Please try to understand : I 'm so tired of living with the dead . ’ |
| 6 | Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution . |
| 7 | Last week , the Montgomery County ( Maryland ) chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) , tired of waiting for the police to solve the case and for NIH to comment on the report , held a press conference to express its outrage at the events of the past seven months and to demand that the lives of those affected ‘ be made whole ’ . |
| 8 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |
| 9 | The stone walls of our cottage groan and shudder as if tired of battling with the centuries of wind . |
| 10 | She was getting tired of standing in the hall with this unhelpful clergyman . |