He allows Suguri to temporarily work at Woofles to make up for her dog Lupin's tryst with Noa and later hires her as a permanent employee after seeing her repertoire with dogs, although her naive nature occasionally annoys him into punishing her in slapstick fashion.

This performance occasionally annoyed him, more often amused him, and in sum was worth enduring because they did a fine job and because he had complete trust in them.

Her ambition occasionally annoys her colleagues and leads to ribbing against her, especially from her subordinate Tom Haverford.

At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner.

Or at least it's what keeps me fascinated by the show even when it occasionally annoys me.

Despite being the teacher's pet, he occasionally annoys Dr Pym with his pompous manner and his hastiness to answer questions not directed at him.

Reed's political tactics occasionally annoy the ideologues of the religious right.

The author recounts extraordinary events in a homely, self-effacing prose that occasionally annoyed me: I wanted more fire, more blood, more revelation.