1 For the first time he could see the woman properly.
2 It was the first time that he had stripped himself naked in her presence.
3 He paused, realizing for the first time the vagueness of his own motives.
4 For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him.
5 After the middle of the present century, the first danger had in reality disappeared.
6 The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up in one of the first great purges of the fifties.
7 Sometimes, too, they talked of engaging in active rebellion against the Party, but with no notion of how to take the first step.
8 And for the first time he noticed, with a kind of inward shudder, and yet not knowing AT WHAT he shuddered, that both Aaronson and Rutherford had broken noses.
9 For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world.
10 The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.
11 The serious piece of folly had been to come back here in the first place, after buying the diary and without knowing whether the proprietor of the shop could be trusted.
12 That's better, comrade, that's MUCH better, she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.
13 He could not now remember whether it was before or after having the dream that he had seen O'Brien for the first time, nor could he remember when he had first identified the voice as O'Brien's.
14 As he looked at the woman in her characteristic attitude, her thick arms reaching up for the line, her powerful mare-like buttocks protruded, it struck him for the first time that she was beautiful.
15 To understand the nature of the present war--for in spite of the regrouping which occurs every few years, it is always the same war--one must realize in the first place that it is impossible for it to be decisive.
16 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.
17 There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.
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