Example sentences of "after a long illness " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly quit the game after a long illness , unexpectedly won back the British national title at Newcastle yesterday when she beat Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting less than 45 minutes . |
| 2 | By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … . |
| 3 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 4 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 5 | ‘ When my father died , after a long illness , I was devastated . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Peter and Paul , Yeadon died in Leeds Infirmary after a long illness on October 24th . |
| 8 | THE Bradford Catholic Players are saddened by the death after a long illness of past President and Life Vice President Clare Illingworth . |
| 9 | On 2 October of the same year William Jowett Titford , great-grandson of William the Emigrant , wrote to his mother in London : ‘ The father of our relation W. C. Titford died at Frome June 6th after a long illness ’ . |
| 10 | William Jowett Titford 's copy of a letter to his mother of 2 October 1802 , mentioning the death of Charles the Cheesemonger : ‘ The father of our relation W. C. Titford died at Frome June 6th. after a long illness ’ . |
| 11 | CORONATION Street actor Teddy Turner , who played Chalky White in the popular soap , has died after a long illness aged 75 . |
| 12 | Jean Dwyer , widely known in publishing as the long standing London syndication manager of News Ltd of Australia , died in Oxford on 9th March , aged 59 , after a long illness . |
| 13 | When he died in Oxford 10 June 1975 after a long illness , he was engaged on a biography of his famous godfather . |
| 14 | Alan Beatt , Weidenfeld 's representative in Scotland and northern England until his early retirement on health grounds , died on 13th December after a long illness . |
| 15 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 16 | Peter Skinner , regional general manager , Asia and East Africa , died peacefully on Wednesday October 14th after a long illness which both he and his family had fought against with great courage . |
| 17 | I have the same new-worldliness of someone who emerges to sunlight after a long illness in a darkened room . |
| 18 | The game , which is sure to be a sell-out , has been organised as a memorial to Mervyn Brown , the former Irish League secretary who died last year after a long illness . |
| 19 | The paramount chief or Vunivalu of Fiji , Ratu Sir George Cakobau , died on Nov. 25 , 1989 , at the age of 77 after a long illness . |
| 20 | Ho Dam , 62 , one of North Korea 's most senior statesmen and , since 1983 a member of the politburo of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party and Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland , died in Pyongyang on May 11 after a long illness . |
| 21 | Sally Mugabe , 59 , the wife of President Robert Mugabe since 1961 , died on Jan. 27 after a long illness . |
| 22 | died on April 22 , 1993 , peacefully at home after a long illness . |
| 23 | editor of Caterer and Hotelkeeper for 36 years , died aged 86 , after a long illness . |
| 24 | But in what seemed like a very short period my mother died after a long illness . |
| 25 | Mary and Noel Redpath from East Belfast lost their son Gary after a long illness one month before Brian 's horrific murder in 1973 . |
| 26 | MICHAEL Wittet , former senior partner for Scotland of Deloitte , Haskins & Sells , chartered accountants , died at his home in Edinburgh on Monday after a long illness . |