Example sentences of "[vb past] been ill for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 4 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 5 | 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 . |