tiresome

Infinitive complement

• read: The Mormon Bible is rather stupid and tiresome to read, but there is nothing vicious in its teachings.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Evelyn has visions, which are rather tiresome, to do with her past life.
• somewhat: This happens for all 4 soldiers, and gets somewhat tiresome after a while.
• increasingly: Rational debate - it would be nice to see it on these increasingly tiresome forums.
• extremely: From me to time during play, I found the interpreter extremely tiresome.
• little: Sadly, too much of anything, no matter how unique, tends to get a little tiresome.
• quite: Spellings at times can become quite tiresome for some of the children.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• get: All this Mourinho Vs Benitez can get a bit tiresome.
• find: From me to time during play, I found the interpreter extremely tiresome.
• make: Excessive heat can put great stress on plants and make life very tiresome with all the increased need for watering by their owners!

Modifies a noun

• journey: I do remember once he said: " In this tiresome journey of life, sometimes somebody stops us to make us relaxed.
• task: It would be a very tiresome task to come up with a similar list from a dictionary.
• job: Also, the removal of the fallen leaves is a tiresome job.
• business: Even better, they might seek advice ' at the highest level ' and save us the bother of all that tiresome court business.
• habit: Being an MP had become a tiresome habit as familiar and dreary as pulling on an old boot.
• process: Getting a mortgage from a bank is often a tiresome process.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Working with plastic sheeting requires some care - the build up of static charge can attract dust, which becomes tiresome.
• grow: You would think that the repetition of a single song would grow tiresome.
• get: Ballad of a thin man can never get tiresome.
• seem: It doesn't seem too tiresome - he spends the time sitting in a spare dressing room playing computer games.