1 For some time he sat gazing stupidly at the paper.
2 That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time.
3 It was nought seven fifteen, getting-up time for office workers.
4 It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.
5 Perhaps it was the time when the atomic bomb had fallen on Colchester.
6 At the time he was not conscious of wanting it for any particular purpose.
7 For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him.
8 What was curious was that at the time, in the dream, the words had not made much impression on him.
9 He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago.
10 Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.
11 He spun round just in time to see Mrs. Parsons dragging her son back into the doorway while the boy pocketed a catapult.
12 In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines.
13 He could not now remember whether it was before or after having the dream that he had seen O'Brien for the first time, nor could he remember when he had first identified the voice as O'Brien's.
14 Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
15 By leaving the Ministry at this time of day he had sacrificed his lunch in the canteen, and he was aware that there was no food in the kitchen except a hunk of dark-coloured bread which had got to be saved for tomorrow's breakfast.
16 Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war, but it was evident that there had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood, because one of his early memories was of an air raid which appeared to take everyone by surprise.
17 little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him.
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