Example sentences of "[vb past] been ill for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time .
2 Oh he 'd been ill for about six months I think , but erm
3 She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services .
4 Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire .
5 She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them .
6 He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital .
7 Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come .
8 SIGARUP HAD BEEN ILL FOR A WEEK .
9 Then , late one afternoon when Chola had been ill for three consecutive days , Kalchu asked the dhāmi once again to call the god to the shrine on the roof of his own house .
10 Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 .
11 Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’
12 The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years .
13 But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born .
14 Dad had been ill for fourteen years , on and off .
15 I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel .
16 DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 .
17 He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday .
18 He had been ill for some time .
19 Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said .
20 He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April .
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