c) It would be a good idea for you to go to the dentist's 3 to take old Mrs Jones to hospital. d) The doctor gave Andy an injection 4 to put on my sunburnt arms and legs. e) I'm going into hospital tomorrow 5 to get rid of her headache. f) We took the cat to the vet 6 to reduce the pain and help him sleep. g) Susan took two aspirins 7 to take to the chemist's. h) Nobody could find a stretcher 8 to keep fit, or to lose some weight. i) The doctor gave Helen a prescription 9 to carry the injured man out of the building. j) I bought some special cream 10 to have an operation on my foot. 5) Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. a) Martin hasn't quite …...... his illness yet. A) recovered B) got over C) looked after D) suffered b) Pauline .....
outside into the street. In fifteen minutes he was back with a page of notes, and there was more whispering, and through her sobbing she heard a few of the whispered phrases - "...acted quite normal...very cheerful...wanted to give him a good supper...peas...cheesecake...impossible that she..." After a while, the photographer and the doctor departed and two other men came in and took the corpse away on a stretcher. Then the fingerprint man went away. The two detectives remained, and so did the two policeman. They were exceptionally nice to her, and Jack Noonan asked if she wouldn't rather go somewhere else, to her sister's house perhaps, or to his own wife who would take care of her and put her up for the night. No, she said. She didn't feel she could move even a yard at the moment. Would they mind awfully of she stayed just where she was until she felt better
Wounded men are sent back to fight before they are healed; even crippling physical defects do not save them from combat duty. Leer bleeds to death from a thigh wound. The summer of 1918 is horrific. Though they are obviously losing, the Germans keep fighting. Rumors of a possible end to the war make the soldiers more reluctant to return to the front lines. Kat is wounded while returning with food that he has scavenged. Paul cannot leave him to find a stretcher because Kat is bleeding too much. Paul painstakingly carries him to the dressing station while shells crash around him. Kat is the only friend Paul has left in the army. When he reaches the station, still carrying Kat, he discovers that Kat has been hit in the head by a fragment from an exploding shell. Paul's dearest friend is dead. Chapter Twelve Summary In the autumn of 1918, after the bloodiest summer in Paul's wartime experience, Paul is the
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Edward vehemently refused his, and I tried to do the same, but the traitor told them I'd hit my head and probably had a concussion. I almost died of humiliation when they put on the neck brace. It looked like the entire school was there, watching soberly as they loaded me in the back of the ambulance. Edward got to ride in the front. It was maddening. To make matters worse, Chief Swan arrived before they could get me safely away. "Bella!" he yelled in panic when he recognized me on the stretcher. "I'm completely fine, Char -- Dad," I sighed. "There's nothing wrong with me." He turned to the closest EMT for a second opinion. I tuned him out to consider the jumble of inexplicable images churning chaotically in my head. When they'd lifted me away from the car, I had seen the deep dent in the tan car's bumper -- a very distinct dent that fit the contours of Edward's shoulders... as if he had braced himself against the car with enough force to damage the metal frame...