Название | Flying finish / Бурный финиш. Книга для чтения на английском языке |
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Автор произведения | Дик Фрэнсис |
Жанр | Современные детективы |
Серия | Modern Prose |
Издательство | Современные детективы |
Год выпуска | 2010 |
isbn | 978-5-9925-0514-6 |
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soul’s balm if you stayed three hours, devitalising if you stayed for life – (
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all talking at once about stalls and spins and ratings and slide slips and allowances for deviations – (
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could fly the pants off most of that lot – (
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can strip an engine down – (
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gave me a rev by rev account of it – (
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got it off his chest – (
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you were hooked good and proper – (
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I’m in a spot – (
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I’m going to be a pilot short – (
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the R.A.F.
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in very sticky straits – (
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what he’d been working round to all along – (
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I liked it that way – (
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that they would make a fuss and stop me – (
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I had arrived at a truce – (
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he was not given to early rising or to waving us
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expected any placatory soft soaping from me – (
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which wouldn’t do up by six inches – (
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The net result – (
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a horse would go berserk – (
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as a last resort – (
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soothe them at take-off and landing – (
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The bars were joined at each corner by lynch pins. – (
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John conspicuously lacked both. – (
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made my share as dificult as he could – (
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every star, blaze and sock– (
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no swindle had been pulled this time – (
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the French stud book – (
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Fifteen hundred hours – (
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had barely warmed up – (
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it was none of my business – (
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lumbered unwillingly and morosely up the ramp – (
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excise oficer – (
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wanted to get off early – (
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I gathered – (