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1  The patrols did not matter, however.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
2  It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
3  The patrols might stop you if you happened to run into them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
4  Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
5  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
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
6  However, no patrols had appeared, and on the walk from the station he had made sure by cautious backward glances that he was not being followed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
7  Before being brought here he had been taken to another place which must have been an ordinary prison or a temporary lock-up used by the patrols.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
8  It was perfectly possible that the patrols would catch him on the way out: for that matter they might be waiting outside the door at this moment.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
9  There were evenings when they reached their rendezvous and then had to walk past one another without a sign, because a patrol had just come round the corner or a helicopter was hovering overhead.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  Slowly, in mild afternoon sunshine, he walked up a dingy street in the direction of Mr. Charrington's shop, keeping one eye open for the patrols, but irrationally convinced that this afternoon there was no danger of anyone interfering with him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9