Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] suffered from " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had never suffered from claustrophobia , but right now she could imagine just how its victims felt . |
| 32 | Mrs Watson had never suffered from depression before and a pathologist confirmed she had no signs of natural disease . |
| 33 | Lakes and rivers in heavily farmed counties such as Cavan have long suffered from irresponsible dumping by farmers . |
| 34 | Services for people who drink alcohol to excess or who misuse drugs have long suffered from a lack of clarity about what the exact nature of the problem is . |
| 35 | A second study suggests that commercially-important species , including herring , shrimp , mussels , clams and rockfish have all suffered from the oil spill , presenting a " risk that they may not respond to conventional management actions for decades " . |
| 36 | ‘ Thousands of businesses , large and small , have already suffered from the activities of unscrupulous photo-copier salesmen , and unclear contracts . |
| 37 | Any people who have ever suffered from itches that they can not scratch will sympathize with the dilemma of the de-clawed cat . |
| 38 | I HAVE always suffered from an easily bruised ego ( the result of either too early , too late , or perhaps no toilet training ) . |
| 39 | I have always suffered from nightmares , and at first I thought to press one of them into service , believing that dreams speak from some inner truth , and that in their very unlikelihood lies something more plausible to our inner beings than the most prosaic diurnal life . |
| 40 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 41 | We have also suffered from rain in the wrong place and at the wrong time . |
| 42 | Poor families have also suffered from the withdrawal of free school meals for 500,000 children in 1988/89 , following a tightening of the eligibility criteria . |
| 43 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |