The phrase "took ill" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a common phrase to describe when someone becomes ill or becomes sick suddenly. It is often used in a past tense form, as in "she took ill." Example: "Unfortunately, she took ill during her vacation and had to cut her trip short."
She took ill and died during the course of the difficult voyage.
"As I was with her the night she took ill, I am believed to be exposed.
But the following year, while stumping for annexation in Hawaii, she took ill and died.
The parents of a teen-age girl at boarding school got a letter from her last week: "Sylvia is believed to have the mumps," she wrote, "As I was with her the night she took ill, I am believed to be exposed.
The New Yorker, January 21 , 1950 P. 19The parents of a teen-age girl at boarding school got a letter from her last week: "Sylvia is believed to have the mumps," she wrote, "As I was with her the night she took ill, I am believed to be exposed.
Because before the 2014 Games she had flown over from America to compete and she took ill with a lung condition.
Donoghue paints a spirited picture of the girls' everyday lives: Mary solicits clients by crying, "Fourteen and clean"; when she takes ill, she enters a hospital, the Magdalen, that specializes in prostitutes willing to repent -- or at least to say they will -- in exchange for medical care.
Later, visiting Bern, she briefly took ill during a news conference (aides blamed fatigue and jet leg).
The trip was cut short when she unexpectedly took ill, and her sister-in-law, Edwina Mountbatten, who happened to be passing through Delhi on her own tour, had to smooth things with the Indian hosts who were taken aback at Princess Andrew's sudden change of plans.
' It was from my neighbour who used a particular drug in time past so when my children took ill, she gave me the pack of the drug she used to treat her children and asked me to go and buy.
As tears flowed she explained that her mother took ill shortly after arriving in Brazil and missed Friday's game.
