Chris Bradley was first introduced as a young boy who began suffering from increasingly painful headaches.

The wound in his ribs grew increasingly painful but he could not stop to attend to it.

'I will write to England and ask,' she said carefully, finding it increasingly painful even to speak.

Very quickly he found it increasingly painful to breathe.

It has becoming increasingly painful for him to watch.

About 10 years later, her husband died, leaving her alone with a condition that had become increasingly painful.

And so the days went by, and at Uji the wait was increasingly painful.

The obstruction may grow and the hernia can become increasingly painful.

She could pretend it hadn't happened, but that would become increasingly painful, because she was a person who tried to live honestly.

Long-term Treasury rates fell to their lowest level in 30 years yesterday, but the stock market's increasingly painful slide continued.