Example sentences of "he was [adv] [v-ing] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan . |