Example sentences of "[noun pl] pretending [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the rest have four legs , and bark or moo or even lie in swamps pretending to be logs . |
| 2 | Like they 'd crawl across the floor in restaurants pretending to be a couple of dogs . |
| 3 | But in the potato channel are lumps of earth and a few stones masquerading as vegetable , and in the stone channel a few potatoes pretending to be mineral . |
| 4 | That means , among other things , plain-clothes officers pretending to be customers . |
| 5 | The next moment she was a shocked spectator , seeing them both as something in a theatre , perhaps ballet dancers pretending to be puppets . |
| 6 | Jimmy and Alison ended the play as playmates pretending to be squirrels and bears . |
| 7 | Remixes , dance tracks and even total imposters pretending to be musicians ( wheeeeeeeeeeee ! ) . |
| 8 | Me dad hates that song , well there was the two lads and two girls pretending to be sailors or whatever they were . |
| 9 | Wind 's colder now , you 've got to be a kid to enjoy it , go shooting down the hill flailing your arms pretending to be an aeroplane . |
| 10 | He had n't yet said who ‘ they ’ were , but Robert had a fairly good idea that some of them might well be unemployed young men pretending to be Muslims in order to worm their way into jobs that should have been occupied by the Faithful . |
| 11 | Connected by our infernal sound cable , and distributing our weight over as broad an area as possible , we crawled upwards again , like bears pretending to be spiders . |
| 12 | Instead , we are reminded that for every shining ‘ Eight Miles High ’ or raving ‘ Psychotic Reaction ’ , there were 20 million twee twats wheedling through wank called ‘ Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal ’ , and an infinity of squeaky-voiced college boys pretending to be on acid and singing garbage called ‘ Ego Trip ’ . |
| 13 | Thames 's equally well-meaning programme , Adoption — All for the Sake of the Children ( ITV ) , fell down because it was not about real people , only about actors pretending to be real people . |
| 14 | It 's plump actors pretending to be working class , when their fathers are neuro-surgeons . |