11.   I had severe compartment syndrome, a crushing injury where the body swells up and the blood has nowhere to go.

12.   The blood had yet to dry when I got there.

13.   Their blood has to be one of two numbered blood types that most dogs can accept in transfusions.

14.   Your body gets all folded up, and the blood has to take three or four sharp turns to make the circulatory circuit.

15.   Indeed, his own blood has such a use.

16.   His injuries were so bad that blood had to be cleared from the pitch before the match could resume and other players were visibly shaken.

17.   A blood sample taken in hospital after the accident for medical reasons showed that his blood had more than twice the level of alcohol than the legal limit.

18.   This time, crowds were waiting to dip their handkerchiefs in his bleeding palms in the belief that his blood had healing powers.