1 So the chances were he was a foreigner.
2 Actually it was by chance that they had met.
3 Give me a chance and I'll tell you every word of it.
4 But there's plenty that WOULD if they got half a chance.
5 'Of course we can't afford to take chances,' agreed Winston dutifully.
6 There's always the chance of one of those swine recognizing your voice.
7 He was not certain that he would use the razor blade even if he got the chance.
8 In the future such fragments, even if they chanced to survive, would be unintelligible and untranslatable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 9 Only when he chanced to put his hand on his bald scalp did he remember the seamed, ruined face that had looked back at him out of the mirror.
10 The date had stuck in Winston's memory because it chanced to be midsummer day; but the whole story must be on record in countless other places as well.
11 It was another copy of the photograph of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford at the party function in New York, which he had chanced upon eleven years ago and promptly destroyed.
12 Portions of it are constantly changing hands, and it is the chance of seizing this or that fragment by a sudden stroke of treachery that dictates the endless changes of alignment.
13 She must have followed him here, because it was not credible that by pure chance she should have happened to be walking on the same evening up the same obscure backstreet, kilometres distant from any quarter where Party members lived.
14 And it was to be foreseen that with the passage of time the distinguishing characteristics of Newspeak would become more and more pronounced--its words growing fewer and fewer, their meanings more and more rigid, and the chance of putting them to improper uses always diminishing.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX