patience

• lose patience

  Oh I lose patience with them

• great patience

  Painting by this method I am told requires great patience, and it does indeed take time to achieve such detail.

• time and patience

  Thank you for your time and patience.

• have the patience

  Nobody else would have the patience!

• little patience

  She has little patience with any feminist arguments against such pin-ups.

• neither the patience

  She had neither the patience nor the inclination.

• patience nor

  She had neither the patience nor the inclination.

• finally lost patience

  For a time, things hung in the balance, until Richard finally lost patience and took the city of Messina.

• have patience

  ‘You must have patience, my lord.’

• lot of patience

  She'd read Shakespeare, Pete hadn't; not unless you counted Julius Caesar at school, which he'd managed to get through with a lot of patience and a set of Coles' Notes.

• patience with women

  I have no patience with women who let themselves go.’

• patience and good

  This has been represented as some kind of martyrdom on Lewis's part; and doubtless, like any long-term relationship, it called for reserves of patience and good humour on both sides.

• patience snapped

  Sarella's patience snapped.