Example sentences of "pretend to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | No element , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) should ever pretend to be more or less than itself . |
| 2 | ‘ Or I could pretend to be someone else . ’ |
| 3 | What we are witnessing , I fear , is the birth of a new and dangerously illiberal ‘ liberal ’ orthodoxy designed to accommodate Dr Akhtar and his fundamentalist friends , who do not pretend to be part of the Western liberal tradition . |
| 4 | Still , while it does not pretend to be comprehensive , The Spirit of the Letter manages to provoke many questions about the protean and varied role of lettering , from typography to bravura calligraphy , public inscriptions to computer-generated letter forms . |
| 5 | She would pretend to be busy whenever she heard Moran come . |
| 6 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 7 | The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’ |
| 8 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 9 | ‘ But father did n't approve of the game , and if ever he came in when we were playing it , we 'd stop at once and pretend to be talking about something else . |
| 10 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 11 | Do n't lie still and pretend to be asleep . |
| 12 | ‘ First and foremost , possum , let me say that I am a housewife and do n't pretend to be anything else [ some mistake surely — Ed ] . |
| 13 | At least New Order do n't pretend to be anything other than musicians which is an honest statement for once . |
| 14 | This book is refreshing in its simplicity , in that it does n't pretend to be anything more than what it is — a love story . |
| 15 | Do n't pretend to be a better rider than you are ; you will inevitably be caught out . |
| 16 | There , she could pretend to be the housewife she was n't , with the same concerns as Jimmy Young 's daytime audience . |
| 17 | In contrast , the style of some of the chapters of this book does not pretend to be academic . |
| 18 | There are Wild Water Rapids : a long , winding channel of agreeably-warm water , down which one is swept by gravity and the force of the current , and in which one can pretend to be in the closing scene of The Towering Inferno . |
| 19 | Nor does their command of verbal symbolism , the only medium in which one can even pretend to be describing inward states objectively , give them any advantage over painters and musicians . |
| 20 | That one was associated with the English dance explosion , but none of the tracks on this are dance records and they do n't pretend to be . ’ |
| 21 | We used to invite in the other children from the yard and I would pretend to be our music teacher and conduct a lesson . |
| 22 | If he walked in or the girl came to clean the grate , she 'd pretend to be talking to a tradesman : ‘ It really was more fat than lean . |
| 23 | She would pretend to be frightened when he jumped out , would call out to him to be careful when he crept along an overhanging branch and hung , skimming the water . |
| 24 | -I can send you a plainclothes man if necessary , somebody young who can pretend to be looking for her . ’ |
| 25 | Nor indeed did Barth pretend to be beyond criticism , though he was not slow to point out where he thought his critics had misunderstood or misrepresented his views . |
| 26 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |
| 27 | Marco shall pretend to be my brother and take care of me . ’ |
| 28 | I 've always thought you are what you are and you should n't pretend to be anyone else . |
| 29 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 30 | Then she thought that she would not go at all , that she would stay behind and pretend to be ill . |