New Tricks Sentences, Vol. 1
(Sentences from New Tricks (2003-2015). Adjust phrasing where needed)
"Everyone is aware what a distinctive and enviable career path you've carved out for yourself, but you screwed it up!"
"I know it's tricky, the thought of working for someone you used to boss, but if there's one thing I learnt from you, it's to respect people's abilities, not their rank."
"Do you want to do the job properly, or do you just want to look nice?"
"I don't want you doing this - for your own sake!"
"Isn't it all just a bit busy inside your head?"
"I don't ever want to hear you using that word again."
"I do have a life outside the office, you know."
"The last time I punched you, you couldn't get up. The next time, you won't."
"You can only push this thing so far. You do know that?"
"How long have you had this obsession with money?"
"What's that you're writing?"
"If I want to immobilise someone and I've already shot him in the leg, he's kind of stuck in situ while I shoot him in the other one, so I might as well do it!"
"Do you have a bad feeling about this?"
"Do you have any idea what you've done?"
"Never underestimate your skills."
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - I like about today!"
"We don't get to see much beauty in our job, do we?"
"You'd think that being exposed to all this ugliness would make us more appreciative of beautiful things, wouldn't you? But we don't, do we? We don't balance the ugly with the beautiful. We just accept ugly."
"Have I missed something? Or was there a day when all art became so grotesque?"
"Do you ever have cases where the suspects are still alive?"
"I don't kill boring people."
"It's a dangerous game, sleeping with the enemy."
"Is there any chance you'll find who really did it?"
"I don't think you should lecture me on what's right or wrong."
"What time of the day do you normally start drinking?"
"You must think you're pretty cute."
"I don't appreciate sarcasm."
"You're not going to go all obsessive, are you?"
"I don't remember seeing ballroom dancing on your CV!"
"I know it's too late for excuses, but I'm sorry."
"You aren't seriously entertaining the possibility that this guy is psychic, are you?"
"When you said you were going to do dinner, I hadn't realised that you were just going to order in a couple of pizzas."