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1  You could not invariably assume this to be the case when people were arrested.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
2  In general you could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
3  When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
4  Science and technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  It struck him that the man's whole life was playing a part, and that he felt it to be dangerous to drop his assumed personality even for a moment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
6  One could assume that Withers and his associates were now in disgrace, but there had been no report of the matter in the Press or on the telescreen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
7  It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow: and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  The older kind of Socialist, who had been trained to fight against something called 'class privilege' assumed that what is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
10  It was assumed that when he was not working, eating, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreation: to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8