Example sentences of "[was/were] suffer from a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 His agitation was plain as he rubbed the palm of one beefy hand against the back of the other , as if he were suffering from a skin irritation .
2 Leslie , who was suffering from a heart condition before the crash , had a clot the size of an apple removed on Monday .
3 If somebody was suffering from a heart condition it could be fatal .
4 He said Spanswick 's wife had left him and he was suffering from a depressive illness .
5 Saunders was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment but in the event he served only ten months having been released on the grounds that he was suffering from a dementia condition akin to Alzheimer 's disease .
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