Object

• hell: By the way - the fact that they are too big annoys the hell out of me.

• habit: Well, I asked the same question: how can an annoying habit bring you a disease?

• popups: Smart PopUp Stopper blocks banner ads and stops all annoying popups.

• quirk: A couple of annoying software quirks should be sorted out.

• buggy: The new version fixes lots of the small but nevertheless annoying buggies found in the previous version.

• distraction: An annoying distraction from the main plot, or a welcome second layer?

Modifying Another Word

• mildly: I had gone to work with a slight chill and by the end of the day had a mildly annoying sore throat.

• intensely: It is intensely annoying to be told that the objects lying there in front of you are regrettably unavailable.

• incredibly: It was incredibly annoying, but I'm lazy, so I lived with it.

• downright: Some of the new snazzy features I did indeed find to be snazzy, but a lot of the defaults are just downright annoying.

• slightly: Within the show's editing process, Jo had gone from being slightly annoying to quite sympathetic.

• understandably: It kept conking out whenever they tried to import any mp3s, and was understandably annoying.

Preposition: after

• while: Fiery Furnaces were ok, Jess loves them but I find them annoying after a while.

Used with why or when

• when: I sort of agree but get annoyed when we are unfairly targeted by the media to make us sound worse than we actually are.

Infinitive complement

• hear: It is annoying to hear of people who regard a court-martial as a punishment in itself.

• find: He was annoyed to find everything in order at Glastonbury, and no grounds for calumny.

• see: Back at home, Kitty is annoyed to see her step-mother picking on her father.

• say: She was a bit annoyed to say the least, and asked me to ask around to see who else had missing bibliographies.

Present participle complement

• buzz: I particulary like the fact that there is none of that annoying buzzing static you find on other monitors.

Preposition: by

• fact: This is definitely one of those occasions, made even more annoying by the fact it didn't NEED to be a disappointment.