Sentence examples for was then ill from inspiring English sources

When William won the presidency in 1840, the couple asked their daughter-in-law, Jane Irwin Harrison, widow of their son William Henry, to perform the duties of first lady until Anna, who was then ill, could come to Washington.

His mother, Liz, was then seriously ill with kidney disease and on dialysis.

She was then gravely ill, so unwell with pneumonia she was coughing up blood.

She would have a much better chance in the United States, but was then too ill to be transported.

His father was then seriously ill with lung cancer and is believed to have died after Trimble's exams and before graduation.

They recall him saying that he had pleaded guilty at the request of his mother, who was then terminally ill, to avoid trial and potential conviction on the more severe sodomy charges.

The Italian, after ruling himself out of the Arsenal defeat with what Rodgers described as "a slight knock on the knee", was then too ill to play at Blackburn.

He made plans to resume scientific meetings, but was then taken ill again, with significant pain in his thorax and legs.

We got quite close then, when he was so ill.

LabCorp was then a cranky, ill-functioning two-year-old, formed out of a merger of two clinical labs, one cast off by Roche and one by billionaire Ronald Perelman.

There was then only a small, ill-equipped fire company in Chincoteague, and the fire was fought by men of the Coast Guard from the stations near the island.