1.   He turned away from me, as if I had exhausted his patience.

2.   It was too absurd - the invitation, then this curt dismissal, as if I had exhausted his patience.

3.   But even their patience can be exhausted.

4.   Holzmann had already become a symbol of failed government intervention, and it had long ago exhausted the patience of most bankers.

5.   It delights the imagination without exhausting the patience.

6.   It may, however, exhaust the patience of people who like to watch good TV, if the pilot is any indication.

7.   Still, most said their patience had been exhausted.

8.   The chairman, a Republican from Utah, said Democrats on the committee had exhausted his patience by continuing to argue for changes in the bill.

9.   Unless you are a living saint or Jessie Tuggle, the Falcons must exhaust your patience and destroy your will.

10.   For the rebels, the risk of exhausting the patience of foreign mediators was an even greater threat than NATO attack, warned European Union envoy Wolfgang Petritsch.