Sentence examples for had been distressed from inspiring English sources

She came home soon and was sorry he had been distressed.

She said they had been distressed by speculation in Russia about the cause of death.

He had been distressed by marital problems, and he suffered from epilepsy, which had only recently been diagnosed.

A source close to Grayling said he had been distressed at the sight of students protesting against his plans.

About a dozen members who were interviewed over the past three weeks said they had been distressed by the confrontational approach taken by the club's chairman, William Johnson.

He had been distressed about the burial ground ever since he first spied it in 1990, soon after becoming pastor at Middletown's First Church of Christ Congregational.

In a statement read outside court after the hearing, families of the abused patients said seeing the footage had been "distressing and extremely harrowing".

So Tchenguiz is likely to have been distressed by news last week that the Financial Services Authority is investigating apparent share trades in Selfridges by his father, Victor.

Today, Ramsey is the toast of football-mad Washington, where fans have been distressed by recent mediocre records and the revolving-door arrivals and departures of ineffective quarterbacks.

The matre d' looks like a model; those mirrors aren't old, they've been "distressed"; and actually the owner made his explanations in Vanity Fair.

Mr. Veeder appeared to have been distressed about an unrelated investigation of evidence handling by the State Police crime lab in Albany, according to a published report.