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1  'There's a table over there, under that telescreen,' said Syme.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  Anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes.
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3  It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.
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4  She was standing near a doorway in the wall, under a street lamp that hardly gave any light.
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5  But though slightly drunk he was also suffering under some grief that was genuine and unbearable.
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6  There was a deal table under the window where he and the old man could talk without fear of being overheard.
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7  A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police.
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8  The barman swished two half-litres of dark-brown beer into thick glasses which he had rinsed in a bucket under the counter.
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9  But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.
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10  He would buy the engraving of St Clement Danes, take it out of its frame, and carry it home concealed under the jacket of his overalls.
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11  Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.
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12  They held out their arms for you to pass under, and when they came to "Here comes a chopper to chop off your head" they brought their arms down and caught you.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control.
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14  It was a dark, dirty, miserable place where hardly anybody had enough to eat and where hundreds and thousands of poor people had no boots on their feet and not even a roof to sleep under.
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15  He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and--one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency--bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.
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16  Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even--so it was occasionally rumoured--in some hiding-place in Oceania itself.
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17  He did not remember the raid itself, but he did remember his father's hand clutching his own as they hurried down, down, down into some place deep in the earth, round and round a spiral staircase which rang under his feet and which finally so wearied his legs that he began whimpering and they had to stop and rest.
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