Example sentences of "was [adv] suffering [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes . |
| 2 | His face was blackened , he was bleeding from the head and was possibly suffering from shock . |
| 3 | He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan . |
| 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 | The woman , who was probably suffering from haemophilia , felt it was necessary to approach Jesus secretly because her illness made her ‘ unclean ’ according to the Law . |
| 7 | With a tragic stroke of luck that set venereology back many decades , the patient from whom he collected the pus was also suffering from syphilis , and Hunter went on to develop both gonorrhoea and syphilis . |
| 8 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |