Preposition: of

• people: I am actively envious of the two people I know who do.

• man: It makes me envious of the man that has them all.

Modifying Another Word

• quite: I feel quite envious actually, you can escape for weekends whenever you want to.

• slightly: Most people were going all the way it seemed and we were slightly envious of them as we left the boat.

• extremely: I think there will be at least 2 more orders as my fellow Xbox owners seem to be extremely envious.

• little: We are allowed to be a little envious of the French.

• very: I am afraid I have no photos - I am very envious of some of the photos you have on your site.

• so: I am so envious but not enough to not say, " You lucky witch you.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The tackle on his hook would have made donkeys envious worldwide.

• feel: When England played Wales in Cardiff recently, I felt a bit envious of the Welsh who sang their own national anthem.

Modifies a noun

• glance: Indeed the silliness of some of the hats drew envious glances from passing anglers, whose khaki bush hats were quite put to shame.

• eye: His garden draws envious eyes, none greener than Mrs Frost's.

• look: Meaning you can expect envious looks wherever you go â even in the executive lounge.

• man: Christ knew that the envious man would sow tares.

• one: Yes your colleagues might think you've gone a little crazy but they'll be the envious ones when you develop buns of steel.

• people: What we thought were envious people disparagingly called us " the legal factory " .

Used with adjective complement

• feel: I feel quite envious actually, you can escape for weekends whenever you want to.

• become: Do not display your treasures or people will become envious.

• get: It's very easy to get envious of someone elses ministry.

• look: The shooter thing was great fun, actually, the girls were looking quite envious in the garden late this afternoon!