Par's patience began to slip as the minutes passed and nothing happened.

When we started strolling around the Close, however, their patience began to wear thin.

"Look," Hertzberg sounded like his patience was beginning to wear.

They kept it up so long even Nathan's patience began to fray.

"No, we don't," I admitted, but my patience was beginning to run out.

Linda saw that her father's patience was beginning to be tried.

In fact, his patience was beginning to unnerve me.

My patience is beginning to wear a little thin.

"I'm not asking for you to change," he said evenly as his patience began to strain again.

Fastolfe's patience was clearly beginning to stretch to the cracking point.