1 The queue gave another jerk forward.
2 I only gave my wrist a bit of a bang.
3 I gave him a good dressing-down for it.
4 Oceania, 'tis for thee' gave way to lighter music.
5 It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice-spirit.
6 The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust.
7 The proles were nearly always right when they gave you a warning of this kind.
8 But this particular girl gave him the impression of being more dangerous than most.
9 She was standing near a doorway in the wall, under a street lamp that hardly gave any light.
10 The proprietor had just lighted a hanging oil lamp which gave off an unclean but friendly smell.
11 The announcement from the Ministry of Plenty ended on another trumpet call and gave way to tinny music.
12 But at the last moment, while the crowd still hemmed them in, her hand felt for his and gave it a fleeting squeeze.
13 Parsons did, indeed, invariably revert to shorts when a community hike or any other physical activity gave him an excuse for doing so.
14 Once when they passed in the corridor she gave him a quick sidelong glance which seemed to pierce right into him and for a moment had filled him with black terror.
15 He was walking up a cobbled street of little two-storey houses with battered doorways which gave straight on the pavement and which were somehow curiously suggestive of ratholes.
16 His spectacles, his gentle, fussy movements, and the fact that he was wearing an aged jacket of black velvet, gave him a vague air of intellectuality, as though he had been some kind of literary man, or perhaps a musician.
17 All marriages between Party members had to be approved by a committee appointed for the purpose, and--though the principle was never clearly stated--permission was always refused if the couple concerned gave the impression of being physically attracted to one another.
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