Example sentences of "had [been] ill for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 2 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 3 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 8 | Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 9 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |