Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They even demanded that I take a Wassermann test in order to be sure that I was n't suffering from syphilis .
2 They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes .
3 By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe .
4 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 .
5 Maybe she was still suffering from jet lag or , possibly , from the deeply upsetting and traumatic visit to the hospital this morning .
6 Satisfied that she was safely hidden from view , Benny began swiftly examining the drums for labels that might give her a clue as to what was in them .
7 Thus , the JanSport backpacks which were once Lo Life standard issue are now widely derided , as Moet and his friends turn to more sophisticated techniques : ‘ The way me and my friends do it now is to wear a suit and tie like we was just comin' from work , and carry a travel bag to carry another suit .
8 Sometimes it was just stuff from school .
9 In the past it was often hung from farmhouse ceilings to display a person 's wealth ( the more Gaperons the better ) and to indicate the size of the dowry of an eligible daughter .
10 It was originally isolated from endotoxin treated monocytes but can also be produced by a variety of other cells upon stimulation with a number of cytokines including IL-1 and tumour necrosis factor ( TNF-α ) .
11 In January 1979 when he was finally released from hospital he and Raine booked into the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane for an expensive month-long convalescence .
12 He was finally released from prison two years later on payment of a £500 fine to Edward .
13 There was something in his voice that made her believe he was not speaking from malice himself .
14 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 .
15 Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 .
16 Manley was re-elected president of the PNP for the 22nd consecutive time at the party 's annual conference in late September , his re-election dispelling rumours that he was about to retire from politics and resign as Prime Minister .
17 He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average .
18 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 .
19 The question was whether he was entirely excused from performance for he had not offered to supply the reduced amount of 140 tons but had instead sold it to someone else .
20 His first , 11 weeks after the crash took place on December 20 when he was gently transferred from hospital by ambulance , strapped to a stretcher .
21 He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan .
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