Example sentences of "[prep] pretending to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morrissey ought to get himself a string section and stop swanning about pretending to be Melvyn Bragg . ’ |
| 2 | They will have to choose between pretending to be friends of the farmer and lackeys of the environmentalist . |
| 3 | A young man was chained to the back of the cart for pretending to be a priest . |
| 4 | They also accuse Christians of pretending to be morally superior and of taking great delight in their virtue . |
| 5 | At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long . |
| 6 | But it bothered her , because Naylor You'll-do-as-I-say Massingham had as good as just told her that either she shut up and went along with everything he said , even to the extent of pretending to be engaged to him , or he would dismiss her ! |
| 7 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 8 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |
| 9 | He 's as well sit pushing papers around pretending to be busy but drawing the salary than being made redundant which is what ought to be happening . |
| 10 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 11 | Arrested by the Germans in 1942 , he had saved his life by pretending to be mad and had been interned in the Saint-Anne asylum until the liberation . |
| 12 | She would occasionally reward Thatcherite newspapers , such as the Express , with a gracious , unrevealing interview ; on television , Sir Robin Day and Brian Walden would flatter her by pretending to be tough , and she would flatter them by pretending they were . |
| 13 | The legend of the fox that traps birds by pretending to be dead has been depicted for centuries . |
| 14 | It achieved this , he noted , by pretending to be injured , dragging itself along the ground as if it had a broken wing . |
| 15 | However , its brain was minuscule and Hercules managed to trap it by pretending to be an army and getting the animal confused and tangled in foliage . |
| 16 | First and second encounters can be managed by conventional openness — a third meeting may necessitate a humorously resigned grin — a fourth can be handled by pretending to be wrapped in thought — a fifth may require some dramatised horseplay such as play-acting a Western duel . |
| 17 | ‘ She told me she would try to make you afraid by pretending to be ill . ’ |
| 18 | I filled in the rest of that day by pretending to be busy with the audit . |
| 19 | Section 2(1) ( c ) will also , for example , cover situations where the accused gains admission free or at a reduced charge by pretending to be an old age pensioner . |
| 20 | He tricked his way into her home on Norman Road in the Gorse Hill area of Swindon by pretending to be a new neighbour . |
| 21 | Mr Wakerley told the jury that Sams kidnapped Julie Dart by pretending to be a client . |