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1  I shall switch on in a quarter of an hour.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  Then he turned a switch and the voices stopped.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The lights would be switched off at the main at twenty-three thirty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  He was waiting with his hand on the switch that controlled the telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  It was even possible, at moments, to switch one's hatred this way or that by a voluntary act.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  The thing that impressed Winston in looking back was that the speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in midsentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9