Example sentences of "was [adv] suffer from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grandfather was only suffering from a nagging cough and mild flu but he was , after all , somewhat of a grandee in the town because of his wealth . |
| 2 | They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes . |
| 3 | Cracks in the temple of Hibis in the el-Kharga oasis in the Libyan desert have widened , giving urgency to the plan to move the temple which was already suffering from underground water seepage . |
| 4 | In Phillips v Grampian Health Board ( 1989 ) The Times , 9 March a widow was held entitled to recover damages even though she married the deceased when he was already suffering from a fatal disease and she knew that his death was inevitable within a few years . |
| 5 | His face was blackened , he was bleeding from the head and was possibly suffering from shock . |
| 6 | Lear was always to suffer from this apparent rejection . |
| 7 | He was still suffering from blackheads and other rash problems which jolted his vanity every time he looked in the mirror . |
| 8 | My lad said he was still suffering from the shock of seeing Gould 's leg in the iron . ’ |
| 9 | Despite admitting she was still suffering from jet lag she was forced to spend lunchtime with Prince Charles at the official home of Prime Minister Hyun Soong-Jong and his wife . |
| 10 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 11 | Some members of staff at the school felt that it had suffered and was still suffering from the effects of the reorganization . |
| 12 | He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan . |
| 13 | In S 987 , a writ from 1035 , Cnut declares that he will not permit wrong to be done to Canterbury no matter who may be reeve ( presumably of Kent ) — a clear indication that it was still suffering from the attentions of his men . |
| 14 | Maybe she was still suffering from jet lag or , possibly , from the deeply upsetting and traumatic visit to the hospital this morning . |
| 15 | At first Peter 's parents thought he was still suffering from a recent bout of whooping cough , but when he started a second bottle of C-vit they noticed the drink had fermented , turning some of the juice into alcohol . |
| 16 | For months , no-one told him he was still suffering from the effects of his head injury . |
| 17 | I only realised I was still suffering from ME after my doctor referred me to a psychiatrist . |
| 18 | ‘ He was clearly suffering from the effects of alcohol , ’ Mr Paul Reid , prosecuting , said . |
| 19 | He was clearly suffering from reactive depression . |
| 20 | The woman , who was probably suffering from haemophilia , felt it was necessary to approach Jesus secretly because her illness made her ‘ unclean ’ according to the Law . |
| 21 | In his later years , he was also to suffer from persistent bronchial trouble and emphysema exacerbated by his smoking . |
| 22 | With a tragic stroke of luck that set venereology back many decades , the patient from whom he collected the pus was also suffering from syphilis , and Hunter went on to develop both gonorrhoea and syphilis . |
| 23 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |
| 24 | One parent described the condition of her daughter in hospital , when she saw her , who was also suffering from toxic shock . |
| 25 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 26 | He was indeed suffering from foul of the foot , the mediaeval term given because of the stink of the necrotic tissue between the cleats , and I did n't have any antibiotics or sulphonamides to treat it . |
| 27 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |