Example sentences of "[pers pn] have suffered [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I ran two personal bests , 10.33 seconds for the 100 metres and 20.79 seconds for the 200 , which was further encouragement for me and compensation for the traumas I had suffered on the West London track throughout the long , cold , seemingly never-ending winter .
2 Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead .
3 I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start .
4 I 've suffered from tinnitus for ten years .
5 It 's a vigorous campaign and I 've suffered from it before .
6 If I did wrong , then I have suffered for it .
7 Ever since I reached my teens I have suffered with cellulite .
8 ‘ How I have suffered with them ! ’
9 When finally she becomes a mother-in-law she is entitled to tyrannise her daughter-in-law , reminding her that ‘ I have suffered in my time now it is your turn ’ .
10 PAMELA : [ coming round ] O tell me , yet tell me not , what I have suffered in this distress .
11 However , she has n't let it get to her : ‘ I do n't think I have suffered from the male domination thing as much as other women might because I 'm a belligerent , stubborn , loud-mouthed bastard , basically ! ’
12 I think this year I have suffered from what they call teacher burnout .
13 For the past year , she has suffered from incontinence , but her kind next-door neighbour has done regular washing for her .
14 Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage .
15 Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted .
16 Another told me she had suffered for three years with a terrible pain in her back but since following the diet the pain had completely disappeared .
17 How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public .
18 The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans .
19 She had suffered at the sharp end of the tongues of some of Dej 's more sophisticated barons ' wives in the 1950s and Dej 's favourite daughter did not respect her .
20 Tomorrow , she would have to forget the humiliation she had suffered at his hands and plead for his help in what threatened to be a hopeless task .
21 She had suffered during long bouts of Hopper 's depression , rages and his obsession with James Dean .
22 Because of the enormous disruptions she had suffered in her life she was finding it difficult to manage on a day-to-day basis , and prison represented a way of ‘ escaping ’ from her immediate problems .
23 Through her iron self-discipline , Laura had managed to control some of her phobias , such as fear of cows , small insects and mice , but she never obliterated the memory of how she had suffered in younger days .
24 She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash .
25 It emerged that she had suffered from mild diarrhoea and wind for some years , but had not thought it worth bothering the doctor about these minor problems .
26 She had suffered from anorexia nervosa since the age of 19 .
27 For several years she had suffered from painful endometriosis , which was at first misdiagnosed and then treated unnecessarily by surgery .
28 As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other .
29 She was filled with happiness , although during the past six weeks she had suffered from indecision and doubts .
30 What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was .
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