Example sentences of "be ill for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | SIGARUP HAD BEEN ILL FOR A WEEK . |
| 5 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 6 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 8 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 9 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 10 | So there 's , there 's a chance you 'd recover in that , in that range , though you will be ill for a while . |
| 11 | I remember Ivy telling me that she and Margaret were ill for a fortnight when something of the sort threatened them — and I doubt if they were also blasted in the affections … . |
| 12 | Respondents were asked to say whether they had actually received assistance from relatives at the time when their own children were born , and also to indicate whether they would turn to relatives for support in three hypothetical situations , of varying degrees of seriousness : to borrow tools or materials ; if the respondent and/or his wife were ill for a couple of days ; if illness lasted several weeks . |
| 13 | I was ill for a lot of my boyhood , but I did manage one complete term at prep school . |
| 14 | He was ill for a long time . |
| 15 | He was ill for a month with a swingeing combination of Jardea and cryptosporidia . |