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1  You pretended that you had seen a piece of paper which proved them innocent.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
2  He is not pretending, thought Winston, he is not a hypocrite, he believes every word he says.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
3  She would be hanging about among the stalls, pretending to be in search of shoelaces or sewing-thread.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
4  The strategy that all three powers are following, or pretend to themselves that they are following, is the same.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  Then he saw the girl standing at the base of the monument, reading or pretending to read a poster which ran spirally up the column.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
6  And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
7  They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  The tales about Goldstein and his underground army, she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the Party had invented for its own purposes and which you had to pretend to believe in.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
10  They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3