Preposition: as

• parrot: Taken as a whole, I was neither over the moon, nor sick as a parrot.

Modifies a noun

• pilgrim: In all there were nearly 400 pilgrims including about 90 sick pilgrims.

• pay: Sick pay From date of joining pilots are entitled to basic salary for 3 months in any rolling 12-month period.

• syndrome: Increasing the amount of fresh air often helps in sick building syndrome.

• leave: Also, I'd had two lengthy periods of sick leave from work due to stress.

• joke: With the town basking in the glory of our unique status this is surely some kind of sick joke?

• bay: He died in the camp sick bay after falling into a coma.

Modifying Another Word

• chronically: Fuel poverty remains a killer in Britain today despite repeated efforts by government, with older people and the chronically sick at most risk.

• heartily: The - s will be heartily sick of you.

• violently: His weight chart looked terrible and Aaron was still being violently sick and sleeping lots.

• physically: The thought of giving a presentation can make some people feel physically sick.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: Feeling sick beyond belief, I would go home feeling I had been punished for things in a previous life.

• worry: She's not gone home, she's not even been to college for the past 2 weeks and I'm worried sick!

• fall: Just before he fell sick, the Prophet had given orders for an expedition to the Syrian border.

• get: The worst is always getting sick of the road.

• lie: Mother Bird lay sick a long time, tended by West.

Preposition: of

• sight: However this was another species I was almost sick of the sight of by the end of the tour.

• hearing: And it is a message the Mayor of Wroclaw is sick of hearing.

Preposition: with

• flu: It pays to say something more specific like " hear your mother has been sick with the flu " .

• worry: Not bad for an 85-year-old, although he was sick with worry throughout, and so very pleased when it was all over.