Example sentences of "[verb] been ill for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 2 | . Just think of this food , clothing , shoes all to come out of my earnings the average of £3.9.9d. a little more sometimes , a few shillings Bonus , and my son has been ill for the past three weeks , whos going to pay the doctors Bill also I have lost time at work through air raid warnings no pay . |
| 3 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 4 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 6 | Oh he 'd been ill for about six months I think , but erm |
| 7 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | SIGARUP HAD BEEN ILL FOR A WEEK . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 15 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 16 | The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years . |
| 17 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 18 | Dad had been ill for fourteen years , on and off . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 25 | if it 's just like one exam or two exams that they 've failed or they 've been ill for or they 've missed or something they 're offered the opportunity to sit those in September then we have another exam board in September |
| 26 | This is particularly true for those with multiple symptoms who have been ill for many years . |
| 27 | All too often , we are called to see foals which have been ill for 24 hours or more and by that stage they can be very sick indeed . |
| 28 | Albert said , ‘ She 's been ill for ages . |