Channeling was tiring work, and the more of the Power you channeled, the worse.
Learning is tiring work and now I'm seriously hungry!
It is a tiring 10 hours continuous work for both husband and wife.
"It must be very tiring work, and bad for the eyes."
It was very tiring work carrying the things over the rocks up to the cave.
This was tiring work but her exhaustion went beyond what you would expect.
The day's march promised to be warm and tiring work.
"Now we might just go out and sit on your porch for a bit, for shopping's tiring work."
Although it only involved sitting, waiting, watching, and listening, doing a surveillance was tough, uncomfortable, tiring work.
It was hard, tiring work, frustrating because we found nothing.