1 Only the Thought Police mattered.
2 It did not matter, nothing mattered.
3 The patrols did not matter, however.
4 Nor did it even seem to matter greatly.
5 It was dangerous, but it was not a life-and-death matter.
6 What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist.
7 So would anybody else, for that matter: but Syme more than most.
8 All that mattered was somehow to stay alive until the spasm was over.
9 It was not very skilfully done, but Winston's standards in such matters were not high.
10 Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered.
11 The other three were routine matters, though the second one would probably mean some tedious wading through lists of figures.
12 Mere debauchery did not matter very much, so long as it was furtive and joyless and only involved the women of a submerged and despised class.
13 But in matters of vital importance--meaning, in effect, war and police espionage--the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated.
14 One could assume that Withers and his associates were now in disgrace, but there had been no report of the matter in the Press or on the telescreen.
15 What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself.
16 Three messages had slid out of the pneumatic tube while Winston was working, but they were simple matters, and he had disposed of them before the Two Minutes Hate interrupted him.
17 Talking to him was largely a matter of getting him away from such subjects and entangling him, if possible, in the technicalities of Newspeak, on which he was authoritative and interesting.
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