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1  Then the spasm passed, leaving a dull ache behind.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  The girl with dark hair was sitting immediately behind.
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3  Behind his back he could feel everyone eyeing his blue overalls.
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4  Behind him were the waxen-faced officer and the black-uniformed guards.
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5  His mother, in her slow, dreamy way, was following a long way behind them.
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6  It was gone almost at once, but it left a sort of nagging uneasiness behind.
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7  'E could 'a drawed me off a pint,' grumbled the old man as he settled down behind a glass.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  But yesterday, at any rate, during the Two Minutes Hate, she had sat immediately behind him when there was no apparent need to do so.
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9  Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan.
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10  She had a bold, aquiline face, a face that one might have called noble until one discovered that there was as nearly as possible nothing behind it.
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11  Behind his screwed-up eyelids a forest of fingers seemed to be moving in a sort of dance, weaving in and out, disappearing behind one another and reappearing again.
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12  An overpowering smell of sweat, a sort of unconscious testimony to the strenuousness of his life, followed him about wherever he went, and even remained behind him after he had gone.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  From the table at Winston's left, a little behind his back, someone was talking rapidly and continuously, a harsh gabble almost like the quacking of a duck, which pierced the general uproar of the room.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  A handsome, tough-looking boy of nine had popped up from behind the table and was menacing him with a toy automatic pistol, while his small sister, about two years younger, made the same gesture with a fragment of wood.
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15  Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark-haired girl behind him.
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16  The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  And all the while, lest one should be in any doubt as to the reality which Goldstein's specious claptrap covered, behind his head on the telescreen there marched the endless columns of the Eurasian army--row after row of solid-looking men with expressionless Asiatic faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen and vanished, to be replaced by others exactly similar.
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