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1  They could do what they liked with you.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  Very likely no boots had been produced at all.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
3  He would have liked to continue talking about his mother.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
4  It was all guesswork: very likely he had imagined everything.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  Like various other words in the B vocabulary, DUCKSPEAK was ambivalent in meaning.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
7  One, much the more likely, was that the girl was an agent of the Thought Police, just as he had feared.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  He had pulled her down on to the ground, she was utterly unresisting, he could do what he liked with her.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  Quite likely her real object had been to listen to him and make sure whether he was shouting loudly enough.
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10  Even now it seemed quite likely that when she turned round and looked at him she would draw back after all.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  If the patrols appeared he might plead an attack of faintness, but it was not likely that they would believe him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  Very likely as many as a dozen people were now working away on rival versions of what Big Brother had actually said.
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13  He pushed it away from him, aware only that it was the memory of some action which he would have liked to undo but could not.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  Very likely the confessions had been rewritten and rewritten until the original facts and dates no longer had the smallest significance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  Like the glass paperweight or Mr. Charrington's half-remembered rhymes, it belonged to the vanished, romantic past, the olden time as he liked to call it in his secret thoughts.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  Like the glass paperweight or Mr. Charrington's half-remembered rhymes, it belonged to the vanished, romantic past, the olden time as he liked to call it in his secret thoughts.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  Quite likely the person at the next table was a spy of the Thought Police, and quite likely he would be in the cellars of the Ministry of Love within three days, but a cigarette end must not be wasted.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
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