Example sentences of "recover from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But could she recover from her petulant rejection of him ? |
| 2 | The difficulty is simply that as a co-heir Seia is owner of an undivided share of the whole estate , and the question is on what basis she can recover from her coheir the quarter of the gardens which she does not own qua heir . |
| 3 | Some years later , when it was apparent that my daughter would not recover from her poliomyelitis , I felt that it would no longer be possible to continue serving in the Royal Navy , which entailed long periods of separation from my home . |
| 4 | She was miserable now but inevitably she 'd recover from her first heavy affair . |
| 5 | Very often , if they lost their income or savings , or had a bad marriage , or developed a serious organic disease , they did recover from their neuroses . |
| 6 | He thought it quite possible that Pike had starved the horse to help it recover from its leg injury . |
| 7 | ‘ Here you may rest and recover from your fever . |
| 8 | Mister Grant has a long way to go before he will fully recover from his injuries . |
| 9 | The operation was cancelled because of a shortage of beds in intensive care where he will recover from his surgery . |
| 10 | Tess had her mother 's energy and the energy of her youth to help her recover from her experience . |
| 11 | She had the sort of belly that has produced perhaps three or four children and never managed to forget its importance or let go of its previous function or recover from its distension . |
| 12 | patients recover from their depression at about the same time that their body clock , as measured by the melatonin rhythm , adjusts its phase to match the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 13 | Would patients who recover from their ailments while waiting to be seen by the doctor please vacate your seat for those less fortunate — there are still plenty of us left . |
| 14 | While Oxford United recover from their five-one hammering in the coca cola cup at Tranmere last night , Swindon Town and Hereford United are preparing for their cup matches this evening . |
| 15 | When the angina patient seemed to be stable he too was transported to an ambulance to be taken to hospital so that he could rest and fully recover from his attack . |
| 16 | The Labour party showed little sign of recovering from its election defeat in 1979 . |
| 17 | Kinnock , born in 1942 , grew up in a South Wales scarred by memories of the Depression but recovering from its reality . |
| 18 | It was at this time that regional experiences diverged : the eastern part of the country , especially Lincolnshire and East Anglia , was recovering from its period of maximum depopulation , while in the west and the north the period of heaviest losses occurred ( Willats and Newson 1953 ) . |
| 19 | De Gaulle opted for Pleven 's solution , on the grounds that the medicine that Mendès-France prescribed was too strong for a nation that was still recovering from its wounds . |
| 20 | He was soon able to report that the British government was recovering from its " kind of extreme retrogression to nineteenth-century attitudes " . |
| 21 | It was in the elaboration of its programme rather than in its Parliamentary Opposition or in campaigns in the country , that the Labour Party made the greatest advances in recovering from its collapse . |
| 22 | At the end of May 1913 Emily Davison was at home in Longhorsley , near Morpeth , recovering from her latest spell in prison , when she received by telegram the instructions that took her to Tattenham Corner as the Derby field approached . |
| 23 | The 29-year old victim from South Norwood , south-east London , was recovering from her 13-hour ordeal after supermarket staff called police and her assailant ran off following a struggle . |
| 24 | That was where Luch silently led Marion Maclean , slowly recovering from her shock during the four-mile walk . |
| 25 | We watched with admiration as Alice our skater , now recovering from her ordeal and the fact that her son was a girl , began to unpack the beautiful Swiss lace gowns she had brought with her . |
| 26 | In her short career keep-fit fanatic Lesley has had to spend nearly nine months off duty recovering from her injuries . |
| 27 | The victim , aged 44 , is still recovering from her ordeal which happened outside Barclays Bank in Kingsway , Dovercourt , on February 22 . |
| 28 | Recovering from her immediate mini-breakdown , Dawn decided that what she had regarded as comfortably dull marriage had become comfortably boring for Tim . |
| 29 | Rosalba , recovering from her amusement , became conspiratorial : ‘ Are you sure you want to know ? |
| 30 | She found her mother recovering from her illness , and took over as head of the household . |