Example sentences of "[adv] recover from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 2 | That was where Luch silently led Marion Maclean , slowly recovering from her shock during the four-mile walk . |
| 3 | Redmond , now with Oldham , is slowly recovering from the misery of his final few months at the club he joined as a boy . |
| 4 | He had apparently recovered from his visit to Johanna , hiding his feelings behind the usual veil of secrecy . |
| 5 | By the late 1950s European states had not only recovered from the war , but had achieved remarkable economic growth . |
| 6 | Employment here peaked in 1975 and had somewhat recovered from its lowest level of 1981 by 1984 . |
| 7 | When I had sufficiently recovered from this onslaught , two points remained fixed in my mind . |
| 8 | December 8 , 1924 : I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking . |
| 9 | Theresa had a transplant in 1989 and was just recovering from that ordeal when she had a brain haemorrhage and went into a coma for three months . |
| 10 | The city was just recovering from one of the usual bouts of plague which come in late winter ; its citizens , however , sensed the worst was over and the streets buzzed like an overturned hive . |
| 11 | ‘ Standing on chairs is n't to be recommended when you 're just recovering from a sprained ankle . |
| 12 | He says that they were only just recovering from making cuts last year , now they 're having to do the same again ; only this time there will be redundancies . |
| 13 | My husband , just recovering from hospital treatment himself , must now care for me , entailing 24-hour supervision . |
| 14 | But I soon recovered from the chloroform and really appreciated the company of the other Mums . |
| 15 | Does this mean that if there is clear evidence that the goods were stolen by P from X ( who has since disappeared ) P may nevertheless recover from D , who converted them ? |
| 16 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 17 | She broke her shoulder as a human cannonball on Noel Edmonds ' ill-fated ‘ Late , Late Breakfast Show ’ , and she had no sooner recovered from that when a car accident delayed the venture for another two years ! |
| 18 | One Martian meteorite already recovered from Antarctica , which has been analysed at Milton Keynes , contained significant amounts of organic chemicals . |
| 19 | In the 1950s West European economies had already recovered from the war , trade amongst all advanced states was growing in the 1960s and Western trade expansion was helped by the ‘ Kennedy Round ’ of tariff reductions involving Europe and North America . |
| 20 | They had only just recovered from dealing with all the correspondence and presents from the wedding ; six days later , when the pregnancy became official , lorry loads of letters , bibs and baby boots rained down upon them . |
| 21 | In fact , only just recovered from the ringworm , Nijinsky went to Doncaster chiefly to please his owner Charles Englehard who , not surprisingly , coveted the rare sporting distinction of a British Triple Crown . |
| 22 | He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak . |
| 23 | In the following May , Miller again reported illness , being just recovered from a fever and subsequent attack of rheumatism , so wished to postpone a visit to Woburn . |
| 24 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 25 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 26 | But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best . |
| 27 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 28 | Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle . |
| 29 | Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip . |
| 30 | Sir Ranulph 's weight had dropped from 14 to 10 stones and he and Dr Stroud , 37 , had only just recovered from the low blood sugar condition hypoglycaemia . |