1 Cream-laid, it used to be called.
2 It's a church, or at least it used to be.
3 They used to kind of embed it in the glass.
4 Actually he was not used to writing by hand.
5 He used to say it to me when I was a little girl.
6 It was the very same scent that she had used; but at the moment it did not seem to matter.
7 He noticed that she never used Newspeak words except the ones that had passed into everyday use.
8 The old, discredited leaders of the Party had been used to gather there before they were finally purged.
9 She even used to remind him of it in the morning, as something which had to be done that evening and which must not be forgotten.
10 It was Boat Race night--terribly rowdy they used to get on Boat Race night--and I bumps into a young bloke on Shaftesbury Avenue.
11 It was too soon, her youth and prettiness had frightened him, he was too much used to living without women--he did not know the reason.
12 It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds--scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like.
13 In the last truck he could see an aged man, his face a mass of grizzled hair, standing upright with wrists crossed in front of him, as though he were used to having them bound together.
14 Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon--not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words--which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes.
15 Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron--they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be.
16 He seemed to breathe again the warm stuffy odour of the basement kitchen, an odour compounded of bugs and dirty clothes and villainous cheap scent, but nevertheless alluring, because no woman of the Party ever used scent, or could be imagined as doing so.
17 The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.
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