1. If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pam. 

2. It was all an elaborate pretence.

3. He made no pretence of great musical knowledge.

4. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad.

5. She was unable to keep up the pretence that she loved him.

6. Altman strips away the pretence and mythology to expose the film industry as a business like any other.

7. She made absolutely no pretence of being interested.

8. She isn't really ill; it's only pretence.

9. Their friendliness was only pretence.

10. The playwright cocooned himself in a world of pretence.

11. Their way of life was all pretence.

12. His pretence at friendliness fooled no one.

13. The theory made the greatest pretence of having a scientific foundation.

14. The army has given up any pretence of neutrality in the war.

15. We have to go along with the pretence that things are getting better.

16. I make no pretence to being an expert on the subject.

17. He was hanged without even the pretence of a proper trial.

18. I make no pretence to be an expert on the subject.

19. Now that the pretence was over, he could tell them what he really thought.

20. He ripped away the mask of pretence which covered their activities.

21. John waited for her under the pretence of tying his shoelaces.

22. To make a decent pretence that she cared?

23. Wolfowitz's announcement made that pretence no longer tenable.

24. He didn't like the food, but he made a pretence of eating some of it as he was a guest.

25. By the end of the evening she had abandoned all pretence of being interested.

26. He tried to get close to her under the pretence of examining the pictures on the wall.

27. I don't know how long I can keep up this pretence.

28. How long are you going to keep up the pretence of being ill?

29. The employer often scolded his men on the slightest pretence.

30. The research project will focus on children's comprehension of pretence.

1. It was all an elaborate pretence.

2. He made no pretence of great musical knowledge.

3. Welland made a pretence of writing a note in his pad.

4. He didn't like the food, but he made a pretence of eating some of it as he was a guest.

5. She was unable to keep up the pretence that she loved him.

6. By the end of the evening she had abandoned all pretence of being interested.

7. Altman strips away the pretence and mythology to expose the film industry as a business like any other.

8. Their friendliness was only pretence.

9. The theory made the greatest pretence of having a scientific foundation.

31. He had never made much pretence at hiding it.

32. Gummer makes no pretence of objectivity in his text.

33. Occasionally, they drop all pretence of fairness.

34. For all her pretence, she loved books.

35. Mr Tellwright made no pretence of concealing his satisfaction.

36. What effort is required to keep up the pretence?

37. Strictly speaking, therefore, impalement and the use of an escutcheon of pretence is marshalling at its simplest.

38. Designing with tradition is not a pretence for re-creating the old.

39. Those who preferred the pretence of business immersed themselves in a book and, from time to time, made an ostentatious note.

40. The kind of love he wanted she could never give, and had never made any pretence of.

41. It is not an evil, conscious pretence of deliberate black lies.

42. Wilson asked Carly out to dinner, on the pretence that he wanted to talk to her about business.

43. No other hypocrites in Shakespeare gain so much so quickly, so easily, and can afford to drop pretence so fast.

44. He made a great pretence of studying her ticket, turning it over, then turning it back.

45. Adolescents are very sensitive about pretence, hypocrisy or deceit on the part of their parents.

46. By now Miller had dropped all pretence at knowing where he was, and the night was exceedingly dark.

47. But the hereditary peers provide a ballast which distorts any pretence at representativeness.

48. For six weeks, Charlotte had sustained the pretence that her suspicions about Maurice could somehow be stifled.

49. It can even be converted into sudden laughter, when one realizes how absurd the pretence is.

50. My friends, mostly similarly ignorant, all keep up this absurd pretence, and all beneath the eyes of an expert.

51. Faces were stripped of pretence by the pitiless bombardment of harsh reality.

52. At least Eva had been able to put up a pretence for the past forty-odd years; a social protection for Charles.

53. He asked me questions about Syl and about myself without any pretence at politeness.

54. Beforehand, the pretence that he was interested in putting together a documentary series on psychic phenomena had seemed a good one.

55. He made a sort of feeble pretence of being afraid that he might lose his head.

56. It made no pretence of catering to faddish tastes like vegetarianism or high fibre diets.

57. If only he would drop all this ridiculous pretence, stop acting the fool and raise his game one more time.

58. On the Reach itself,[] there could be no pretence that this would be an ordinary night.

59. For the pretence hides the fact that in this case the point of law has not been served but unavoidably deserved.

60. Critics could barely keep to the constitutional pretence that the monarch was above political error.

61. I stood by the door and she sat there, making no pretence of civility, waiting for me to go.

62. The worst thing about liberal academics is the pretence that they are somehow more open-minded than their opponents.

63. Their hand-in-glove co-operation has destroyed the final pretence of army neutrality in eastern Bosnia.

64. It seems he makes no pretence about his disgusting perversion.

65. And we must avoid dismissing a particular policy wholesale simply because the pretence of it has sometimes been used to justify iniquity.

66. It was only in London they had to keep up the pretence that Buckmaster had nothing to do with his company.

67. Now, though, the New Labour high command seems ready to drop the pretence.

68. In other words, the pretence that research and higher education are inseparable results in driving out higher education.

69. She was strongly aware of his presence, and in the end she couldn't keep up the pretence.

70. How long could she keep up the pretence of being a competent sailor?

71. He adopts Harsnett's premise that possession is a theatrical performance - Edgar continually brings attention to his madness being a pretence.

72. With relief, I abandoned any pretence at being clever and became a mystic assistant labourer.

73. Though we no longer went out together in the evenings, I promised to keep up the pretence that we did.

74. Provided this agreement exists there can be no pretence at a system of monetary base control.

75. After two weeks he could keep up the pretence no longer and decided to tell her the truth.

76. The parent's intention is often to protect so they hide tears and sorrowing putting on a ghastly pretence of cheerfulness.

77. And referee trying to prize them apart, to keep at least the pretence of a fight going.

78. After that all pretence at restraint was gone as David swiftly undressed then reached out and pulled her down on to him.

79. Simulations and games With pupils in lower secondary years their enjoyment of pretence is not yet impaired by age.

80. Simon did well after that but made a pretence of simple good luck to anyone who questioned his apparent good fortune.

81. The government abandoned any pretence of reform.

82. Julie made a pretence to feel for the key.

83. You shouldn't scold him on the slightest pretence.

84. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary.

85. They beguiled him of his right by false pretence.

86. False pretence or us false pretense.

87. His religion was a mere pretence.

88. Under the pretence of lighting a candle,[http:///pretence.html] she evades him and disappears.

89. Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed.

90. family depended on his ability to wangle a few dollars occasionally . With this money, they would eat well and dress well for a while , making a pretence of affluence.

91. He gave me a nonplussed look, so I gave up on the shallow pretence that I could speak any Turkish and, instead, went to get my phrasebook to show him the relevant words for "bicycle shop".

92. Which devour widows'houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

93. I dislike people that act on false pretence and that our self centered.

94. They are making a pretence of equity with serious faces.

95. They are making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might.

96. So let's pretence for starters which we still need unchanging income.

97. He was sent to prison for obtaining money by false pretence.

98. Davis asked, making a playful pretence at seizing Castle's briefcase.

99. Zhou Yilun is very bold to abandon restraint, face to the most primitive and true instinct of human, and the desire, expansion, putridity and pretence that growing from instinct.

100. No one was deceived by his pretence of professional activity.

101. Precisely how these marriages are distinct from hiring a sex worker, I am unclear – but the distinction at least keeps up the pretence that the new sexual culture doesn't violate religious order.

102. He is send to prison for obtain money by false pretence.

103. His followers pressed him, telling him his magic was all a pretence.

104. The pomposity, the pretence, the downright idiocy: all are gagging for the Dada treatment.

105. " I'll see you later, " he said , with a pretence of disturbance at being interrupted.

106. If she takes against someone, she makes no attempt at pretence.

107. It is wrong to ensure the lawsuit false pretence as the swindle crime, though it has some characters of swindle crime.