Example sentences of "be pretending to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , in fact , the case that the men are pretending to be prepared to operate the accident and emergency service . |
| 2 | It is not always possible to say precisely which kind of eyes these are pretending to be , but the chances are that in most cases they are mimicking the forward-facing eyes of birds of prey . |
| 3 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 4 | ‘ I have n't been pretending to be in love with you this weekend . |
| 5 | But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you 're pretending to be . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you know how people like to be together , even if they 're pretending to be in the wild , so I was thinking of groupings of four to six cabins per lot . ’ |
| 7 | You are n't the cold woman you 're pretending to be ! |
| 8 | Not everyone is as afraid of them as you 're pretending to be . ’ |
| 9 | Wish I were all the things that you 're pretending to be . ’ |
| 10 | But I do n't like the way you 're pretending to be so fond of me , ’ she told him , her hazel eyes flashing and her arms akimbo , ‘ and I do n't like the way we 're deceiving your mother . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Of course , ’ said Amiss helpfully , ‘ he could be pretending to be deaf and dumb . |
| 12 | I thought they were pretending to be offended — but people were honestly upset by it and I was flabbergasted . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you might be a poacher rather than the gamekeeper you were pretending to be . |
| 14 | Essentially , there is no real answer to this question because , in most cases of fraud , the transferor actually believes that the transferee is the person he is pretending to be . |
| 15 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 16 | Someone who is pretending to be something he or she is not . |
| 17 | ’ But Aunt Louise had closed her eyes and was pretending to be asleep . |
| 18 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 19 | She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed . |
| 20 | I found myself formalizing my speech , as if I too was pretending to be in a drawing-room of forty years before . |
| 21 | How did one ask someone what they were doing on the night of the twenty-eighth if one was pretending to be engaged in merely casual conversation ? |
| 22 | ‘ There was somebody else there — somebody who was pretending to be ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ said McAllister in her turn , face white , and trembling as though to lose her post would be the tragedy which it would have been to the servant she was pretending to be . |
| 24 | He was pretending to be a Muslim . |
| 25 | She was a Muslim and he was pretending to be one . |
| 26 | ‘ W-who … ? ’ she stammered , while some part of her intelligence prodded away that — could it be that he somehow knew that she was not the person she was pretending to be ? |
| 27 | I forgot to say that the guerrilla who was pretending to be a madman had let Sis . |
| 28 | She was pretending to Mrs today , at school |
| 29 | Like Viola in ‘ Twelfth Night ’ , Rosalind was played by a boy , who was pretending to be a girl , who was disguised as a boy … |