Example sentences of "[vb past] suffered a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , she had been taken by an Ixmaritian academy as part of a tax levied against her family , whose crops had suffered a blight one year and who were in severe financial hardship . |
| 2 | Like more orthodox Christians , the alchemists maintained that mankind had suffered a fall ; but this lapse from grace was not seen merely as a matter of original sin . |
| 3 | In my constituency , a care home owner admitted an elderly person over a weekend after that person had suffered a fall in her own home . |
| 4 | Within a further month he had suffered a second and fatal one . |
| 5 | Rejecting medical evidence that he had suffered a heart attack brought on by stress and aggravated by a syphilitic condition , the Nazis used the funeral to turn the dead man into a Nazi martyr . |
| 6 | Research recently carried out by the Medical Research Council in Cardiff involved 2,033 men under 70 who had suffered a heart attack . |
| 7 | In each case quoted the patient was either dying , in pain , had fallen out of bed , was bleeding or had suffered a heart attack . ’ |
| 8 | ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) . |
| 9 | Gorbachev announced to the Congress on Dec. 26 that on the previous day Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov had suffered a heart attack , and was seriously ill in hospital . |
| 10 | Méndez had suffered a heart attack the previous month but , although he was reportedly advised by his doctors to avoid pressure , he had been mentioned as a possible leader of the government delegation in resumed peace talks with the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity ( URNG ) guerrilla leaders in Mexico in late April [ see p. 38141 ] . |
| 11 | On Sept. 17 the Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel assumed the duties of the Minister of Justice , Kobie Coetsee , who had suffered a heart attack . |
| 12 | Begin had suffered a heart attack on March 3 . |
| 13 | A post mortem examination revealed she had suffered a heart attack at the time of the accident . |
| 14 | He said he had been taken completely by surprise when Liam Taylor had suffered a heart attack . |
| 15 | Dr Kent was very thorough in his questioning , quickly eliciting that Mrs Cole was thirty-four , married with three children , and had suffered a bout of flu three weeks previously . |
| 16 | He said Thompson had been involved in a traffic accident in which he had suffered a head injury and been concussed for a short time . |
| 17 | Back on the pitch , the Warblers , who had suffered a surprise 22–16 defeat in their quarter-final pool at the hands of a spirited Irish Wolfhounds outfit fired by scrum-half Alain Rolland , hauled their way into the semi-finals with wins over the Portuguese Barbarians and the Froggies . |
| 18 | We have already seen that some of the less successful students had suffered a blow to their self-esteem as a consequence of the rigid rules on learning . |
| 19 | I am sure the silly old bastard had suffered a blow to the head and believed he was playing out a role from some heroic romance . |
| 20 | Her own preference was for retracing Maurice 's route at first light in case he had suffered a breakdown or been involved in an accident . |
| 21 | He referred , of course to British Rail which had suffered a drop in investment of £180 million . |
| 22 | False rumours soon spread that Hardy had suffered a defeat and that no British Ship remained in the home waters to prevent imminent invasion . |
| 23 | On Aug. 17 , however , Shamuyarira denied that the President had suffered a defeat on the issue , and criticized the media for misleading reports . |
| 24 | In 1966 , while undergoing a Caesarean section , she had suffered a collapse under the anaesthetic . |
| 25 | In hospital Esther had tests including a CAT scan and an angiogram , and the doctors concluded that Esther had suffered a stroke from a thrombus . |
| 26 | Anne who took full responsibility for the care of her husband , David , who had suffered a stroke , needed a rest for a couple of days a week as she was suffering from arthritis . |
| 27 | In essence , the obsessive Clare Leash had taken it upon herself to make a full account of the volumes in the Society 's possession , and had suffered a stroke while doing so . |
| 28 | She was a big woman and had suffered a stroke . |
| 29 | In 1794 she published her Collection of Poems and Fables , by which time she had suffered a number of domestic calamities , including the death of a child and apparently the imprisonment of her husband . |
| 30 | Nevertheless it is clear that Anglo-American relations had suffered a number of shocks since 1950 , while Churchill was quite wrong in his expectation that the Americans would be happier to work with him than with Labour . |