in one piece

"Fortunately, we got our beloved's body intact, in one piece," he says.

"I was amazed that it came back in one piece," she added.

She said she was "grateful" that she was "in one piece" and able to make her own way to safety.

Sara Kemp, prosecuting, said Clarke contacted the MP in August on social media, saying: "I cannot wait for your next public appearance, you will be lucky to leave it in one piece."

During the complex operations, the neurosurgeons carefully removed the affected hippocampus in one piece, curing the majority of the patients of their seizures.