Example sentences of "a long illness [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 2 | CORONATION Street actor Teddy Turner , who played Chalky White in the popular soap , has died after a long illness aged 75 . |
| 3 | THE Bradford Catholic Players are saddened by the death after a long illness of past President and Life Vice President Clare Illingworth . |
| 4 | Peter and Paul , Yeadon died in Leeds Infirmary after a long illness on October 24th . |
| 5 | His commitment to School was matched by his commitment to his wife , whom he nursed through a long illness without ever missing a day at School . |
| 6 | A much-loved brother dying in rather questionable circumstances , then her first husband … and then having to nurse her second husband — my father — through a long illness at a time when she herself was n't well . |
| 7 | The new building was opened with great fanfare in January 1895 , and the grateful deaf members appointed William Agnew a director , a position he retained until his death after a long illness in 1914 . |
| 8 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |