Вопрос: Choose the right preposition: He had left the office early and had come here to drink the afternoon away. Things had not been going so well _ the Morton Agency. In fact, things were bloody horrible
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Choose the right preposition: He looked around and licked his lips. Constant supervision during the first month, Donatti had said. Eighteen hours a day _ the next two–but he would never know which eighteen
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Choose the right preposition: He looked at them for a moment, then snatched one and lit it _ the dashboard lighter
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Choose the right preposition: He offered his hand and smiled, and _ Morrison the smile looked almost predatory. He began to feel a little tense, and that made him want a cigarette.
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Choose the right preposition: He reached into the drawer and brought _ a cigarette. He caressed it, fondled it. What was that old slogan? So round, so firm, so fully packed. Truer words had never been spoken. He put the cigarette in his mouth and then paused, cocking his head
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Choose the right preposition: He sees the young man almost every morning now, and sometimes _ other places
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Choose the right preposition: He slept badly that night, dozing _ and out of sleep
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Choose the right preposition: He took the elevator up and stepped off _ a lushly carpeted foyer and from there into a gracefully appointed reception room with a wide window that looked out on the scurrying bugs below
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Choose the right preposition: He was sitting _ the outer office of Quitters, Inc. the next day promptly at three. He had spent most of the day swinging between skipping the appointment the receptionist had made for him on the way out and going in a spirit of mulish cooperation – ‘Throw your best pitch at me, buster.’
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Choose the right preposition: He went downstairs and _ his study
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Choose the right preposition: His hands trembled in their desire to get hold of Jimmy Judas McCann. Stealthily, he glanced _ the study again
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Choose the right preposition: Horns blasted impatiently behind him. Ahead, the traffic had begun to move again. He stubbed the cigarette _ in the ashtray, opened both front windows, opened the vents, and then fanned the air helplessly like a kid who has just flushed this first butt down the john
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Choose the right preposition: Hugging his son tightly, realizing what Donatti and his colleagues had so cynically realized before him: love is the most pernicious drug _ all.
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Choose the right preposition: I told her to get rid _ all the damn cigarettes
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Choose the right preposition: I wasn’t _ very good shape
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Choose the right preposition: In spite of how lousy he felt _ the morning, breakfast tasted good
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Choose the right preposition: In the end, something Jimmy McCann had said convinced him to keep the appointment – ‘It changed my whole life.’ God knew his own life could do _ some changing. And then there was his own curiosity. Before going up in the elevator, he smoked a cigarette down to the filter. Too damn bad if it’s the last one, he thought. It tasted horrible.
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Choose the right preposition: McCann laughed. “You know it. Well, to put the capper _ it, the doc told me I had an incipient ulcer. He told me to quit smoking.” McCann grimaced. “Might as well tell me to quit breathing.”
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Choose the right preposition: Morrison and a crony from Larkin Studios _ Jack Dempsey’s bar. Crony offers a cigarette. Morrison grips his glass a little more tightly and says: I’m quitting. Crony laughs and says: I give you a week
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Choose the right preposition: Morrison grunted. He considered ‘since Hector was a pup’ to be one _ Cindy’s stupider sayings, on a par with ‘I should smile and kiss a pig.’
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Choose the right preposition: Morrison nodded in perfect understanding. Nonsmokers could afford to be smug. He looked at his own cigarette _ distaste and stubbed it out, knowing he would be lighting another in five minutes.
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Choose the right preposition: Morrison picked up the card, looked _ it thoughtfully, then tucked it away in his wallet and forgot it
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Choose the right preposition: Morrison’s eyes widened. “What did they do? Fill you full _ some drug?”
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Choose the right preposition: No windows. He slid open the top drawer _ his desk and looked in, fascinated by the cigarette box
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Choose the right preposition: Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space was probably close to Morrison’s yearly salary. _ the directory in the lobby, it looked to him like their offices took up one whole floor, and that spelled money. Lots of it
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Choose the right preposition: The card fell out _ his wallet and onto another bar a month later
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Choose the right preposition: The house was grave-quiet. He looked _ the cigarettes in the box for almost two minutes, unable to tear his gaze away. Then he went to the study door, peered out into the empty hall, and went back to look at the cigarettes some more
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Choose the right preposition: The room was _ the middle of the house
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Choose the right preposition: The thought of Cindy in that room – He listened desperately and heard nothing. He told himself that all he had to do was to go _ the closet door and yank it open
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Choose the right preposition: The wait in the outer office was shorter this time. When the receptionist told him to go_, Donatti was waiting.
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Choose the right preposition: Then twelve hours of broken surveillance each day _ the rest of the year. After that? Random surveillance for the rest of the client’s life
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Choose the right preposition: Three men and one woman sat _ the chairs along the walls, reading magazines. Business types, all of them. Morrison went to the desk
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Choose the right preposition: Tobacco crumbs spilled. The sound of Donatti’s fist was very loud _ the closed room. The smile remained on his face in spite of the force of the blows, and Morrison was chilled by it. Probably just the effect they want to inspire, he thought
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Choose the right preposition: Treatments by Appointment “No, it’s nothing like that. Go and see _ yourself.” He gestured at Morrison’s cigarette. “You don’t really like that, do you?”
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Choose the right preposition: We may audit you every other month,” Donatti said. “Or every other day. Or constantly for one week two years _ now.
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Choose the right preposition: When Henry brought his change, he finished his drink and then went _ a walk
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Choose the right preposition: “But consider the implications. When you put a man in prison you take away any normal sex life, you take away his liquor, his politics, his freedom of movement. No riots – or few _ comparison to the number of prisons. But when you take away cigarettes – wham! bam!” He slammed his fist on the desk for emphasis.
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