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"I found you not at the end of my storybook but at an odd part in the middle It’s dog eared and the corners are worn from reading it over and over again and although you didn’t turn out to be my happy ending you’ll always be my favourite chapter " start learning
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dziwny; zagięte rogi; wytarty
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"‘I liked the shorthand we seemed to fall into when nobody was around, the easy intimacy that had sprung up between us.’ " start learning
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skrót (od czegoś); pojawiać się
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surreptitiously; dim; cabin My gaze slid slowly sideways from my glowing telly until I gazed at him surreptitiously in the dim light of the cabin.’ start learning
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ukradkiem; przyćmiony; chatka
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‘Very chivalrous of you, Nate’ start learning
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‘It didn’t make me resemble corpse wearning a shroud’ start learning
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przypominać; zwłoki; całun
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‘And slowly I saw Will re-emerge.’ start learning
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‘Then still a little damp, I climbed in beside him.’ start learning
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‘As dusk fell, the three of us talked of our childhoods...’ start learning
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‘I began to walk towards the bed then flinched at a sudden crash of thunder.’ start learning
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‘... at the pink seashell nails that would always have to be trimmed by sb else’ start learning
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neatly; hedge; newfound caution ‘Beyond the neatly trimmed hedge cars drove past with a newfound caution, pedestrians slipped and squealed on the pavements.’ start learning
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schludnie; żywopłot; nowoodkryta ostrożność
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‘Camilla’s eyes grow a little steely as she detailed...’ start learning
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‘We would stop at a small beach near a rocky outcrop, just out of the view of the main hotel.’ start learning
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‘I was so oddly reassured by how they felt in my own that I kept them, gazing at them, at the calluses that told of a life not entirely lived behind desk.’ start learning
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uspokajać kogoś; pęcherzyki na rękach
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"‘We never got to the bottom of what had prompted Louisa to stay - Will just said ‘family issues’ - but she was a busy little thing.’ " start learning
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‘that southern part of the island was renowned for sea breezes and, out of season, the resort temeratures rarely rose past the early twenties’ start learning
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‘Just... a little daunted about cancelling this lot’ start learning
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‘He didn’t want to be seen to be complying, in some way.’ start learning
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‘He seemed curiously absent, as if the Will I knew had gone on a brief trip somewhere else and left only a shell.’ start learning
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She was already imagining all sorts of possible and undesirable consequences start learning
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This had been Will’s domain - this globe these wide shores start learning
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I had popped by their house on friday, on my return, to show Will my spoils and to make sure his own passport was still valid. start learning
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"It’s like I’m looking through a funnel " start learning
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"That if the girl failed with her ranches " start learning
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"He policed himself rigidly so that he didn’t say anything about running or marathons, and laughed whenever he caught the conversation veering in that direction. " start learning
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ściśle; zmieniać kierunek
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"The airline had assured me that the armrests lifted so that we wouldn’t bruise Will’s hips. I couldn’t tell her the truth - the truth that just a handful of us knew." start learning
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podłokietnik; zranić; garstka
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She would be wearing pale wisps of something lacy – underwear for women who didn’t need anything actually supported, and which cost more than my weekly salary. start learning
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tense; to dart; corridor; murmur "I think I’ll ... ’ She seemed even more tense than usual, her eyes darting towards the corridor, from where we could hear the low murmur of voices. " start learning
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napięty; rzucić; korytarz; wyszeptać
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From the time he hit adolescence, I always had to fight the feeling that in his eyes I had somehow done something wrong. start learning
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I didn’t think Will could be affected by anything that I did. start learning
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I made my first claim for Jobseeker’s Allowance. start learning
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"I liked the way he turned his face and looked at me with amusement, like I had somehow turned out to be so much more than he had expected. " start learning
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rozbawienie, wesołość, rozrywka
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Beside me, Will was asleep under the covers, his mouth slightly open, his elbow bent at right angles in front of him. start learning
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anticipated; sheer terror Luckily, they seemed to have anticipated the sheer terror felt by people like me. start learning
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spodziewać się, czyste przerażenie
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It made sense of everything, after all – Mrs Traynor’s anxiety that I shouldn’t leave Will alone for very long, his antipathy to having me there, the fact that for large stretches of time I didn’t feel like I was doing anything useful at all. start learning
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wrogość, antypatia, niechęć
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We had been standing here on the brow of the aptly named Windy Hill for almost forty minutes, and I could no longer feel my feet. start learning
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The mood of the room was tasteful, and peaceful – a Scandinavian bachelor pad. start learning
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‘Why, does that need a bloody badge too?’ start learning
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cabinet; reveal; stack; shrink wrapped bales In the corner a glass-fronted cabinet revealed neat stacks of shrink-wrapped bales. start learning
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szafka; wyjawiać; sterta; zapakowany w folie; bela
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‘The last time I ate out anywhere was a birthday party for four-year-olds at Hailsbury’s only indoor bowling alley, and there wasn’t a thing there that wasn’t covered in batter. start learning
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kręgielnia; ciasto np na naleśniki
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squashed; appeared to; periodically, brass, oak, beam, punctuated; joists; vaguely; revolve; I sat squashed between Patrick and a man whose name appeared to be the Rutter, staring periodically at the horse brasses pinned to the oak beams above my head and the photographs of the castle that punctuated the joists, start learning
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zgnieciony; zdawać się; okresowo; mosiądz; dąb; wiązka/promień, przyrywać, belki; niejasno; obracać się
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My modest wages had been a little bedrock of housekeeping money, enough to help see the family through from week to week. start learning
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essentially; befuddle; supplier; I had realized pretty quickly that I was essentially being instructed to befuddle old people into switching energy suppliers, and told Syed, my personal ‘adviser’ that I couldn’t do it. start learning
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zasadniczo; zamroczyć; dostawca
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The phrase “written on behalf of” is ... humiliating.’ start learning
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tentative; trickle; step off; clutch; disgorged; belch; dot around; perimeter; start learning
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niepewny; strumyczek, wysiadać, ściskać, wypluwać, beknięcie, rozrzucać, obrzerza
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I looked at Will and I saw the baby I held in my arms, dewily besotted, unable to believe that I had created another human being. start learning
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When I did, he would be sitting in his chair looking out into the bleak garden. start learning
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cut in; finger; blinds; put up; He stared for a bit at my cutting in, fingered the blinds that I had put up myself, and put a hand on my shoulder. start learning
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wtrącać się; kraść; żaluzje; stawiać
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Because ... because it seems to me that there is a line being blurred here between what is work and what is ... ’ he shrugged, ‘... normal.’ start learning
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zamazać; wzruszenie (np. ramion)
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Will, despite all his bluster, had been vulnerable. start learning
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Did you know, she once drove backwards into a bollard and swore it was the bollard’s fault start learning
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I was never entirely sure that they bore any resemblance to real life. start learning
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I don’t fancy ... all that ... bouncing.’ start learning
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bud; branch; perennial; tentatively; soil Buds burst from brown branches, perennials forcing their way tentatively through the dark, claggy soil. start learning
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pęk; gałązka; wieloletni/bylina, wstępny, gleba
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wiry, brandish, obscure, layer; boast, The men were wiry, brandishing obscure and expensive sports layers that boasted extra ‘wicking’ properties, or lighter-than-air bodyweights. start learning
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szczupły, ale umięśniony, wymachiwać, niejasny, warstwa, chwalić
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Im gonna cut right to the chase start learning
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He stands there, enjoying the brief flashback, rubbing the water from his hair with a towel. start learning
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windowpanes; rattle; buffet Around us the room was dark and still, the windowpanes rattling gently as they were buffeted by the wind and rain. start learning
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‘And they will have sex once every six weeks and he will adore his children while doing bugger all to actually help look after them. start learning
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dodge; hover; clutch; neoprene; memento, bumbag I walked up the hill, dodging this season’s hovering early few as they clutched their neoprene bumbags and well-thumbed tourist guides, their cameras already poised to capture mementoes of the castle in spring. start learning
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unik; unosić się; chwytać się, neopren; pamiątka; nerka piterek
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There were tales of bungee jumping for quadriplegics, of swimming, canoeing, even horse riding, with the aid of a special frame. start learning
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‘These –’ he held up another bottle ‘– are the antibiotics he has every two weeks for his catheter change. start learning
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chant; riot; stable-girl; pen in; keep out It’s not as if there were crowds of chanting racehorse fans, threatening riots if Charlie’s Darling didn’t make it back in third, rioting stable-girls who needed penning in and keeping out. start learning
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monotonny śpiew; (wszczynać) zamieszki; dziewczyna stajenna; zamykać w zagrodzie; nie wchodzić
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snarl up; stoppage; closure; blizzard I listened to the local news on the radio, the motorway snarl-ups, train stoppages and temporary school closures that the unexpected blizzard had brought with it. start learning
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korek uliczny; zatrzymanie; zamknięcie; śnieżyca
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It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. start learning
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ulica wyłożona kostką; chwiać się
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The girls wore no make-up, and had the ruddy complexions of those who thought nothing of jogging for miles through icy conditions. start learning
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Mum shut her eyes for a moment, as if composing herself before she spoke. start learning
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culprit; border; flourish; slimy There is nothing more disappointing than creating a new border only to see it fail to flourish, or to watch a row of beautiful alliums destroyed overnight by some slimy culprit. start learning
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delikwent, rabatka kwiatowa; kwitnąć; obleśny
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He curses inwardly as he spies the other suited people standing on the edge of the kerb. start learning
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In the corner was an old leather armchair with a reading light, perhaps dating from Will’s previous life, and I curled up on it with a book of short stories that I had pulled from the bookcase. start learning
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In the centre of the room stood a black wheelchair, its seat and back cushioned by sheepskin. start learning
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zabezpieczony (poduszkami)
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Daffodils had emerged as if from nowhere, their yellowing bulbs hinting at the flowers to come. start learning
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I wasn’t yet convinced that I could get Will to go much further afield, and even with Nathan’s help the thought of an overnight visit seemed daunting. start learning
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I dawdled a little in the reception area, flicking through the magazines in the newsagent’s, lingering over chocolate bars. start learning
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obijać się; ociągając się
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Sometimes I wondered if it was a defence mechanism, whether the only way to cope with his life was to pretend it wasn’t him it was happening to. start learning
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But it’s quite hard not to feel a bit deficient in the Department of Brain Cells, growing up next to a younger sister who was not just moved up a year into my class, but then to the year above. start learning
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grimly; demeanour; shoehorn; weary Even Syed, who wore the grimly cheerful demeanour of someone who had shoehorned the most unlikely candidates into a job, was starting to sound a little weary. start learning
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groźnie; postawa; wciskać; znużony,
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‘This is a long-held desire of yours, is it, Nathan? start learning
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due diligence; blare; horn ‘And we need to get this due diligence thing worked out before Martin gets in –’ He glances up at the screeching sound, the rude blare of a horn. start learning
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należyta staranność, badanie firmy w procesie sprzedaży; trąbienie; klakson
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I couldn’t see what they were from here, but it all gave off a faint scent of disinfectant. start learning
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wydzielaćl środek dezynfekujący
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concept; droningly; shipyard Unemployment had been a concept, something droningly referred to on the news in relation to shipyards or car factories. start learning
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pojęcie; brzęcząco; stocznia
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I did my chores, then hung around in the kitchen, wondering if I was brave enough to eavesdrop. start learning
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There are places where the changing seasons are marked by migrating birds, or the ebb and flow of tides. start learning
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write off; unisured; teetering; edifice Dad had had his car written off by an uninsured driver two years previously, and somehow this had been enough for the whole teetering edifice that was my parents’ finances to finally collapse. start learning
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spisać na straty; nieubezpieczony; balansować; gmach
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She made me feel like a first-class eejit, and consequently I became a first-class eejit around her. start learning
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Or busied herself in her garden, cutting things down with frightening efficiency. start learning
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My voice emerged as a squawk. start learning
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‘Your previous employer says you are a “warm, chatty and life-enhancing presence”.’ start learning
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‘So how many races will it take to ensure we’ve fulfilled your long-held ambitions?’ start learning
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This slope is treacherous start learning
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"Forever going with the flow But you're friction" start learning
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I held out a hand with the slightly damp envelope I had gripped in shock the entire journey home. start learning
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Patrick was beginning to look exasperated. start learning
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I thought of Treena’s boss, a taut-faced serial divorcee who monitored how many times my sister went to the loo and had been known to make barbed comments if she considered her to have exceeded reasonable bladder activity. start learning
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He extracted his arm from the cushions and squinted at his watch. start learning
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Shaven-headed man disappeared and Patrick turned back to me, apparently still pondering Will’s fate. start learning
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He looked about as fed up as I had ever seen him. start learning
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Karen swiftly became a fixture start learning
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Will’s mother had given us eighty pounds as a ‘float’. start learning
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transfixed; suppress; flurry, jostling; frantic I stood and watched them go, suddenly transfixed, unable to suppress a flurry of excitement at the tails suddenly streaming out behind them, the frantic efforts of the brightly coloured men atop them, all jostling for position. start learning
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nieruchomy; tłumić; nagłe ożywienie; przepychać się; oszalały
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I was just contemplating whether to actually tug at my forelock, when the door opened and I jumped. start learning
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‘Yes, well, if you’re going to be foul, Will, I think it’s best if Miss Clark does talk directly to Nathan.’ start learning
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cluster; response; ripple As we moved through the foyer of the Symphony Hall, where clusters of smart people stood with handbags and programmes in one hand, gin and tonics in the other, I saw this response pass through them in a gentle ripple which followed us to the stalls. start learning
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There is an explosion as everything fragments. start learning
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There was a faint frown on his face, and he swallowed twice, hard. start learning
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It was made for a more frugal generation and I always had to say a secret prayer that the zip would make it up past my waist, but it gave me the outline of a 1950s starlet, and it was a ‘results’ dress, start learning
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I fumbled with the receiver, trying to set it back in its cradle, and snapped my notepad shut. start learning
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I was nearly dizzy with fumes by the time I had finished. start learning
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I saw the mauve shadows that told of nights and nights of lost sleep, the furrow between his brows that spoke of silent pain start learning
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stoop; furtively; properly; clandestine "I showed Nathan the next morning, the two of us stooping furtively over our coffees in the kitchen as if we were doing something properly clandestine. " start learning
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schylać (się); ukradkiem; odpowiednio, potajemne
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Mum just cooed at Will, and made a huge fuss of him. start learning
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And I could tell Dad had been instructed not to comment on my outfit as I walked out of the house, my gait awkward in the too-tight skirt. start learning
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the galumphing; offspring it is not the grown man – the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated offspring – you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. start learning
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Whenever I looked at it I felt a germ of excitement building – both at the thought of my first ever long-haul trip, but also at the thought that this might just be it. start learning
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As he told me this, I mused that if Treena and I had been given the freedom of the castle, all to ourselves, we would have been air punching with disbelief and getting giddy all over the place. start learning
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rozmyślać; wymach pięścią, lekkomyślny,
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Her daughter, curled up next to her on the sofa, just glowered – the kind of face Mum used to warn me would stick in place if the wind changed. start learning
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Frank was, as Dad put it, as queer as a blue gnu. start learning
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The air slowly grew still around us, the curtains settling, the last of the water draining away with a gurgle. start learning
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‘So when are you going to finish this hatchet job, then?’ start learning
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I closed my eyes and lay my head against the headrest, and we sat there together for a while longer, two people lost in remembered music, half hidden in the shadow of a castle on a moonlit hill. start learning
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hindsight; imbue; sinister; intent With hindsight her behaviour seemed even colder, her actions imbued with some sinister intent. start learning
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spóźniony refleks, nasączać; złowieszczy, zamiary
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Huge hives all over your face is always a good look, right?’ start learning
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I looked over my shoulder at the car park, seeing the hunched figure of Will, Nathan pulling vainly at the handles of his chair. start learning
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"zgarbiony nadaremnie rączka
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The champagne had boosted his spirits immeasurably. start learning
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He stopped then and looked at me for a moment, and I wondered whether he had sussed my inadequate attempts to work out who he might be. start learning
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‘I think horse racing falls into the “except incest and morris dancing” category.’ start learning
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kazirodztwo; taniec angielski
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Granddad shook his head, as if we were all incomprehensible to him. start learning
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I’ve put you on our insurance. start learning
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curtain poles intricately Heavy curtains draped elegantly from fat mahogany curtain poles, and the floors were carpeted with intricately decorated Persian rugs. start learning
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As Dad says of Mum, there’s more fat on a kirby grip. start learning
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I was starting to lag behind. start learning
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I could already picture her growing up within it, her hair in two neat blonde plaits as she sat astride her first fat pony on the lawn. start learning
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I was about to ring Mrs Traynor when the back door opened, and Nathan stepped in, wrapped in layers of bulky clothing, a woollen scarf and hat almost obscuring his head. start learning
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powłoka; pokaźnych rozmiarów, zaciemnianie,
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I hesitated a moment before I opened the door, leaning against it with my hip so that I could balance the tray in my hands start learning
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Because rearranging limp dahlias into buckets of water requires so much physical and mental effort, doesn’t it, Treen?’ start learning
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‘Does Mrs Traynor use linen napkins at every meal?’ start learning
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The older women, in kitten heels, wore structured suits, boxed shoulders with silk linings in contrasting colours, and hats that looked as if they defied gravity. start learning
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podszewka przeciwstawiać się
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I missed his insults, his crabbiness – their absence just added to the looming sense of threat that hung over me. start learning
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You wouldn’t believe the maintenance, apparently. start learning
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He turned to me, his voice matter-of-fact. start learning
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Now he was just Will – maddening, mercurial, clever, funny Will – who patronized me and liked to play Professor Higgins to my Eliza Doolittle. start learning
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doprowadzający do szału, żywy, zmienny
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"We did a slow circuit of the castle, watching Thomas roll down the steep parts of the hill, feeding the ducks that by this stage in the season were so well stuffed they could barely be bothered to come over for mere bread. " start learning
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His expression was one of mild exasperation. start learning
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‘Don’t get up to too much mischief.’ start learning
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trudge muffled numb, shiver I trudged up the drive, my footsteps muffled and my toes already numb, shivering under my too-thin Chinese silk coat. start learning
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mozolnie chodzić stłumiony, zdrętwiały drżeć,
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I liked the fuggy bacon-scented warmth of the cafe, the little bursts of cool air as the door opened and closed, the low murmur of conversation and, when quiet, Frank’s radio singing tinnily to itself in the corner. start learning
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Bright – but not bright enough not to get herself up the duff, as Dad occasionally muttered. start learning
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siedzenie, tyłek, ściółka leśna
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rusty; nail; hurriedly; woodwork; reverse; flesh He had located a rusty nail, barely half an inch emerging from some hurriedly finished woodwork in the back lobby, and, pressing his wrist against it, had reversed backwards and forwards until his flesh was sliced to ribbons. start learning
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route; stabilizer; lopsided; disturbed; wasp's nest that had happened to me on this route: where Dad taught me to ride a bike without stabilizers; where Mrs Doherty with the lopsided wig used to make us Welsh cakes; where Treena stuck her hand into a hedge when she was eleven and disturbed a wasp’s nest start learning
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droga; trzecie kółko w rowerku; krzywy; nizrównoważony/zaniepokojony; gniazdo os
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We watched in silence as they filed out of the vehicle and into the old fortress in a single, obedient line, primed to stare at the ruins of another age. start learning
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He was the kind of man you might see watching cricket in a Panama hat, and had apparently overseen the management of the castle since retiring from his well-paid job in the city. start learning
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I felt suddenly overwhelmed. start learning
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I’ll forfeit any money owed to me. start learning
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whirl; flake; infinity; obscure; blot out; pace A whirl of thick white flakes emerged from an iron-grey infinity, almost obscuring Granta House, blotting out sound, and slowing the world to an unnatural pace. start learning
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wir; odłamek, nieskończoność; zaciemnić; całkowicie usunąć z pamięci; tempo
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His father, a well-padded, gentle-looking man, usually came in as I was leaving. start learning
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It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen. start learning
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She put two on, he parried, lifting a third and fourth from the serving dish. start learning
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Two hours later we exited the tattoo parlour, me eighty pounds lighter and bearing a surgical patch over my hip where the ink was still drying. start learning
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I lay in bed until my thoughts darkened and solidified to the point where I couldn’t bear the weight of them, and at eight thirty I came back downstairs and sat silently watching television, perched on the other side of Granddad, start learning
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zaciemnony; krystalizować się; siadać
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After years spent in that box room, my clothes perched on a rail in the hallway outside, Treena’s bedroom felt palatial. start learning
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wieszak umieszczony imponujący
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Which might seem perverse if you know that for most of the last hundred pages I was dissolved in tears. start learning
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hold something up pestle mortar grind "He held up a jar and emptied one into the pestle and mortar, grinding it furiously. " start learning
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podtrzymać coś, tłuczek moździerz mielić
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‘I don’t think we can afford to be picky at the moment,’ he said, ignoring Mum’s protestations. start learning
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clammy hands official pillared fine I had lost in Year 7, and that a clammy, official hand would reach out as I passed through its Victorian pillared doors, demanding £3,853 in fines. start learning
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lepkie ręce urzędnik kolumnowy mandat
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I am not plain, but I don’t think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. start learning
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Well, I must've bumped my head cause I don't dance the same no more start learning
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Nathan stepped over to the ticket office and explained our plight to the woman inside start learning
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I asked, while Mum walked Thomas around the garden, showing him the frogs in the tiny pond. start learning
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Three days later, just as I set off for work, the postman handed me a letter. start learning
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Usually, after ten minutes or so he would make it clear that he was weary of my presence. start learning
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I realized as I continued that I had assumed his wheelchair would be a barrier; that his disability would prevent any kind of sensual aspect from creeping in. start learning
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zapobiegać zmysłowy wkradać się
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This is a charming novel fizzing with quirky detail’ start learning
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"It’s our first proper holiday together, and there is literally not one single trip in these that doesn’t involve either throwing yourself off something or –’ she pretends to shudder ‘– wearing fleece.’ " start learning
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I pulled my scarf up over my nose and wished I had worn something more suitable than ballet pumps and a velvet minidress. start learning
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czółenka (pantofle) aksamit
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‘Can that thing get a puncture?’ start learning
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In honour of the occasion I was wearing my blue quilted minidress start learning
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When they told me at the hospital that Will would live, I walked outside into my garden and I raged. start learning
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He was rapt, suddenly unselfconscious. start learning
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Her smile glinted under the recessed lighting. start learning
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We’re in the middle of a bloody recession start learning
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To Patrick, and to my sister, I was no different – still the butt of jokes, the recipient of hugs or kisses or sulks. start learning
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rectory pea shingle colonel A large, Georgian rectory, its tall windows partly obscured by showers of pale wisteria, its drive a caramel pea shingle, it was the perfect house for a colonel. start learning
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plebania groszek, żwir pułkownik
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Her eyes were red-rimmed, as if she were about to cry. start learning
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Perhaps he would have liked it better if it hadn’t come with a side order of rubberneck,’ I said, and chucked the remnants hard into the bin. start learning
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ciekawski rzucić coś resztki
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gather instinctively resentful I had to gather my thoughts so that I didn’t feel instinctively resentful. start learning
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zbierać instynktownie urażony,
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"He watched each race, but he was silent, his head retracted into the high collar of his jacket. " start learning
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‘Although you might want to wear ... something a bit less revealing.’ start learning
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The Viking was spoken about with reverence, those who had competed bearing their injuries like veterans of some distant and particularly brutal war. start learning
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I’m just amazed that you can have reached the ripe old age of – what was it?’ start learning
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‘It’s not as if we’ve left him in there to rot. start learning
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He pushed past me and began rummaging around in the medicine cabinet. start learning
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The morning sagged and decided to last for several years. start learning
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discard anticipate references satin "I discarded outfit number three – a pair of yellow wide-legged trousers – already anticipating Will’s Rupert Bear references, and instead put on my fourth option, a vintage dress in dark-red satin. " start learning
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wyrzucać, spodziewać się odniesienia atłas
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sensed vast internal hinterland glimpse With Will I sensed a vast internal hinterland, a world he wouldn’t give me even a glimpse of. start learning
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czuć, obszerny wewnętrzny głąb lądu mignięcie
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settle thickly creep up window sill powdery I read my magazine, lifting my head only to watch the snow settle thickly around the house, creeping up the window sills in powdery landscapes. start learning
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osiadać, grubo podkraść się parapet pokryty proszkiem lub pyłem
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There was a faint sheen of sweat on his cheekbone. start learning
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I could feel the tension creeping upwards from my shins. start learning
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exaggerated shoal iridescent inquisitive swaying anemone ukryty In the silence, broken only by the exaggerated oosh shoo of my own breath, I watched shoals of tiny iridescent fish, and larger black and white fish that stared at me with blank, inquisitive faces, start learning
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przesadny, ławica mieniący się barwami, dociekliwy chwiejącymi zawilec łup,
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join frayed thread ungainly fringe I glanced down to see the two pieces of material that joined at the side of my right leg had torn apart, sending frayed pieces of silk thread shooting upwards in an ungainly fringe. start learning
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łączyć się wytarty nitka niezdarny, frędzle
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strain glisten sinew anguished endure I saw Patrick then, his head down in a sea of straining bodies, his face glistening with sweat, every sinew of his neck stretched and his face anguished as if he were enduring some kind of torture. start learning
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robić coś z wysiłkiem błyszczeć ścięgno udręczony znosić
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I couldn’t help but notice that his leg was becoming weirdly sinewy. start learning
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At this point I would eke out the little annexe’s domestic tasks, washing tea towels that weren’t dirty, start learning
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I wasn’t sure what she thought she was going to do – send Dad out with a sledge and a St Bernard? start learning
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meandering chimes ever-present start learning
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włóczęga melodyjka wciąż obecny
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His smile was a sly thing, breaking in from the side of his face. start learning
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He had tried to commit suicide twice by starving himself until hospitalized, and when returned home had begged his parents to smother him in his sleep. start learning
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‘This is the spare,’ he said. start learning
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Patrick launched into his sales spiel, all about personal motivation and how a fit body made for a healthy mind. start learning
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Dad, I realized, was wearing the tartan slippers with the paint splodges. start learning
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stir; leap out; anxious; disturb "Will stirred, and I leapt out of the chair, anxious to get it before it disturbed him. " start learning
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poruszać wyskakiwać zaniepokojony, niepokoić
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I began to feel the faint stirrings of panic. start learning
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The second outfit was a very severe black dress, cut on the bias and stitched with white collar and cuffs, which I had made myself. start learning
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She was wearing a jacket I hadn’t seen before, and strappy sandals. start learning
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medieval stretch comprise Granta House was on the other side of Stortfold Castle, close to the medieval walls, on the long unpavemented stretch that comprised only four houses and the National Trust shop, bang in the middle of the tourist area. start learning
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średniowieczny obszar zawierać,
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He pulls his collar up around his neck and strides down the street towards the junction, from where he is most likely to hail a taxi. start learning
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chodzić zamaszystym krokiem przywołać
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So after supper she and Treena would strip Mum and Dad’s bed and put on a new set of sheets, together with a mattress protector, just in case Thomas had an accident. start learning
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slid stud chalk up increase ploughman within morph temperatures slid higher, the castle car parks would become studded with vehicles, the local pubs chalk up an increase in requests for a ploughman’s lunch and, within a few sunny Sundays, we had morphed again from being start learning
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ślizgać się nabijać zapisać na rachunek, wzrost, oracz w czasie przemienić
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I don’t know where it came from, this urge to subvert. start learning
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And he was suspiciously talkative for the rest of the afternoon – swift to laugh, and even more combative than usual. start learning
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marginally preferable bat swirl I had been having trouble sleeping, and had found that actually getting up was marginally preferable to lying in my bed batting away the swirling mess of my thoughts. start learning
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minimalnie lepszy odbijać wirować
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He had been injured in what they termed a ‘million to one’ accident when a tackle went wrong. start learning
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thin out distorted tannoy The car park had thinned out with the rain, and in the distance we could just hear the distorted sound of the tannoy as some other race thundered past. start learning
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przerzedzać się zniekształcony system nagłaśniania
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‘And it’s incredibly tedious,’ Will said. start learning
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But my parents tended to stake ownership of the remote control in the evenings, start learning
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wykazywać tendencje udział własność
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veiled; smother mute brief that summer was veiled in a thin layer of sadness; it gently smothered everything we did, muting mine and my sister’s tendencies to the dramatic, and cancelling our usual summer routines of brief holidays start learning
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zasłaniać tłamsić ściszyć, krótki
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We looked at the turnstile, and then back at Will’s chair, and then Nathan and I looked at each other. start learning
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Or shoes you bought from a charity shop that have butterflies on the toes but never quite grip the heel at the back, thereby explaining why they were a knock-down £1.99. start learning
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burnished thoroughbreds billow silk careen There would be burnished, stick-legged thoroughbreds, their jockeys in billowing bright silks, careening past. start learning
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lśniący dobrze urodzony wydymać na wietrze jedwab pędzić
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They wore little badges on red thread, marking them out as special. start learning
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I had always thought the fortnightly meetings of the Hailsbury Triathlon Terrors must be a publican’s worst nightmare. start learning
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She bought me a pair of bright-turquoise glittery wellies – they were quite unusual back then – kids used to just have those green ones, or maybe red if you were lucky. start learning
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the writer who produced this emotional typhoon, knows very well that Me Before You ... is a ‘real weepy’. start learning
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Nathan exuded an air of unflappability. start learning
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My son, although we never said as much, was in the most untenable of situations. start learning
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We were high above the little town now, me puffing on the uphill stretches, trying and failing to stop my heart racing every time a car came past. start learning
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dyszeć stromy, odcinek pędzić,
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He had since acquired a business partner, Ginger Pete, offering personal training to clients over a 40-mile area, and two liveried vans on the HP. start learning
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I had been let go after one of the doughnut girls caught me debating the varying merits of the free toys with a four-year-old. start learning
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‘I feel like there’s always a third person vying for your attention.’ start learning
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I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history. start learning
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But the same thin wail began again at two. start learning
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Everything became greener, the roads bathed in watery sunshine, the air suddenly balmy. start learning
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And then a faint wistfulness. start learning
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withdraw linger upon assess "She withdrew her hand from mine as soon as humanly possible, but I felt her eyes linger upon me, as if she were already assessing me. " start learning
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wycofać się ociągać się na ocenić
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