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The tension, the tears, the camel-toes, the fact it's on just before Wild At Heart, which I still watch in the small hope that Stephen Tompkinson will be eaten by a lion.
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I suppose I ought to have been concerned for the fate of the fifth abducted girl but I was more worried about Stephen Tompkinson, who never quite stopped looking like a man who'd got a flat tyre on the way to his anger management class.
Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks; Inspector George Gently; Horizon Phil Hogan 2010
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A superb Stephen Tompkinson, blunted and sad in the eponymous role, all but banishes memories of his primetime hits (at least, until Wild At Heart returns).
Tonight's TV highlights Jonathan Wright 2010
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It's a romantic dramedy about Maeve (Dervla Kirwan) and Mark (Stephen Tompkinson), who meet in London following their untimely deaths.
TV on DVD 2012
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It's pretty spectacular and terrifying stuff, and rather leaves one hoping that, lovely and cuddly and man-childlike though he is, Tompkinson finds himself involved in several more life-threatening crash-landings over the coming weeks.
Pete Cashmore's Screen burn: Stephen Tompkinson's Australian Balloon Adventure 2010
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So, should any of our Antipodean readers happen to spot Tompkinson as he glides beatifically by, please feel free to try to shoot him down, maybe even kidnap him and get all Wolf Creek on his ass.
Pete Cashmore's Screen burn: Stephen Tompkinson's Australian Balloon Adventure 2010
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In his latest inflatable adventure, Tompkinson is travelling from South Australia to New South Wales, taking in all manner of Australian-ness? camel racers, two-mile-long trains, peculiar meat dishes? along the way.
Pete Cashmore's Screen burn: Stephen Tompkinson's Australian Balloon Adventure 2010
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Tompkinson, found his way into Carondelet -- or Vuide Poche, the French settlement on the Mississippi since absorbed by St. Louis -- and cast about for something to do.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 06 : Central States and Great Lakes 1879
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Tompkinson afterward turned Indian trader and quadrupled his wealth by cheating the red men, he became one of the most esteemed citizens of the
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 06 : Central States and Great Lakes 1879
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As soon as Tompkinson was in clothes and funds -- the result of certain speculations -- he took a house, and hung a shingle out announcing that there he practised medicine.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 06 : Central States and Great Lakes 1879
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