1 If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
2 She had a habit of breaking off her sentences in the middle.
3 The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.
4 He seemed to be breaking up before one's eyes, like a mountain crumbling.
5 There was a snap as though a catch had been turned back, and a crash of breaking glass.
6 Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution.
7 You are afraid,' said O'Brien, watching his face, 'that in another moment something is going to break.
8 Over to his left Winston saw the man in the white coat break an ampoule and draw back the plunger of a syringe.
9 And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life.
10 Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen.'
11 Consorting with prostitutes was forbidden, of course, but it was one of those rules that you could occasionally nerve yourself to break.
12 Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room.
13 They wrenched off the boots with which she had been trying to kick them, and dumped her down across Winston's lap, almost breaking his thigh-bones.
14 Moreover she took it for granted that everyone, or nearly everyone, secretly hated the Party and would break the rules if he thought it safe to do so.
15 Since the beginning of your life, since the beginning of the Party, since the beginning of history, the war has continued without a break, always the same war.
16 There seemed to be no hour of daylight when she was not marching to and fro between the washtub and the line, alternately gagging herself with clothes pegs and breaking forth into lusty song.
17 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.
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