Example sentences of "had been ill " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hatton had been ill and at that time apparently not in funds . |
| 2 | YOU would never have known that Klaus Tennstedt had been ill in his life . |
| 3 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 4 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hazel had been ill , in one way or another , for most of her life . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | SIGARUP HAD BEEN ILL FOR A WEEK . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He spoke as if his son had been ill . |
| 13 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 14 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 15 | He did not know how long Miss Hepburn had been ill . |
| 16 | The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years . |
| 17 | It had come home to her earlier when she discovered that the Prince had sent a bouquet of flowers to Camilla when she had been ill . |
| 18 | He saw his reflection in the mirror as he was adjusting his collar ; not only had his side-whiskers grown while he had been ill , there was also a growth of beard on his chin . |
| 19 | He had n't been able to see Topaz for over two weeks because Virginia had been ill . |
| 20 | On New Year 's Eve he had been ill . |
| 21 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 22 | Her face was pale , far paler than he remembered , as if she had been ill . |
| 23 | His father had been ill . |
| 24 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 25 | Every night since I had been ill , she had ridden to Wuthering Heights and spent the evening with her cousin . |
| 26 | His daughter says that he had been ill — the slight differences in his signature might be due to illness . " |
| 27 | Dad had been ill for fourteen years , on and off . |
| 28 | She had been wondering if she would have gone to visit Rupert if he had been ill , or if she would have left in to Sophia . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She did n't seem interested ; she had been ill while he was away , and spent most of the day in her chair , listening to the radio , more involved with the programmes than in what he was doing . |