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1  You were supposed to stand to attention.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
2  The instructress had called them to attention again.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
3  Winston, sitting in a blissful dream, paid no attention as his glass was filled up.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
4  Most of the people paid no attention to Winston; a few eyed him with a sort of guarded curiosity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
5  He gave Winston a single sharp glance, as though verifying his identity, and then paid no more attention to him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
6  Parsons, his attention caught by the trumpet call, sat listening with a sort of gaping solemnity, a sort of edified boredom.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
7  The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
8  Fortunately the piece of work he was engaged on was mere routine, the rectification of a long list of figures, not needing close attention.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  Not that there was any rule against walking home by an unusual route: but it was enough to draw attention to you if the Thought Police heard about it.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  There was a vacant place at a table further away, but something in the little man's appearance suggested that he would be sufficiently attentive to his own comfort to choose the emptiest table.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  There were no telescreens, of course, but there was always the danger of concealed microphones by which your voice might be picked up and recognized; besides, it was not easy to make a journey by yourself without attracting attention.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  Whenever he began to talk of the principles of Ingsoc, doublethink, the mutability of the past, and the denial of objective reality, and to use Newspeak words, she became bored and confused and said that she never paid any attention to that kind of thing.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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