Usa "pretended" in una frase

1. Tahlmute and doostEr pretended to fall for it just to be polite until some of the local's started teasing them

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2. Thru most of his life he had never been as devout as he pretended

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3. Creditors were furious, they even went so far as to knock on their door and the couple pretended to be absent! So, Alice finally got sick and tired of this all and decided to ask for a divorce

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4. He pretended he was hiding a 'child of the streets' past but Bahkmar felt Jaseem knew less of the streets than he did and all Bahkmar knew of the streets was which ones to stay off of

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5. I pretended not to have taken the hint

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6. He pretended to stumble and fall down and threw his clothes all over

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7. It was a fantail nyobba, she saw that as she slowly approached the branch it pretended it was part of

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8. My old self would have pretended to be busy but the newer me smiled and tried to help

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9. She pretended to be annoyed and I asked her what he'd said but by then he was drowning our conversation and already out of control

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10. The file was disguised as toiletry experiments, but was way too big to be what it pretended

11. The old lady pretended to put some in her mouth then pulled a face and held her stomach as though she was going to be sick

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12. She pretended to know more than he did about the subject and he jumped in and debated her about methods and theories

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13. He pretended he thought he didn’t know it was her at first

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14. 'Oh, I am so scared of the bat ball,' Mama said and pretended to shiver in jest

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15. If she lied and actually did know Tdeshi, how would she find out? If she remembered Tdeshi, she would probably jump when she saw Ava, especially if Ava pretended to be Tdeshi

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16. Xavier said he had pretended to be Captain Cheung's friend, so that he could work for him, and then turned the tables after Cheung had left

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17. He pretended he was looking for something or someone else

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18. Or pretended you had a stone in your boot

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19. I pretended to ignore her

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20. The story, what he told of it, jived with what he told Desa except that he pretended he believed it really was a bad RNAcid trip, at least he thought he was pretending

21. probably pretended to be buying him off with it

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22. "He pretended that I'd lost it," remembers Vikki, still disgusted by her then-husband's actions

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23. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy

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24. pretended to film her

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25. People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was exciting for country folk, and there was even a group of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such and saying there was the sort of man that made England great at sea

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26. Where wages are not regulated by law, all that we can pretend to determine is, what are the most usual; and experience seems to shew that law can never regulate them properly, though it has often pretended to do so

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27. In cheap years it is pretended, workmen are generally more idle, and in dear times more industrious than ordinary

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28. The trade of Holland, it has been pretended by some people, is decaying, and it may perhaps be true that some particular branches of it are so; but these symptoms seem to indicate sufficiently that there is no general decay

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29. " The voice was gruff but pretended to be soft for the elderly woman's sake

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30. which they pretended to pay, but did not always really pay, in goods

31. Those remoter counties, they pretended, from the cheapness of labour, would be able to sell their grass and corn cheaper in the London market than themselves, and would thereby reduce their rents, and ruin their cultivation

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32. Even in the caricature of native cold-weather costume that he was dressed in, there was no mistaking the machine that had pretended to be his father thru his childhood

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33. He gave the machine that pretended to be his mother no mercy

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34. In some parts of Lancashire, it is pretended, I have been told, that bread of oatmeal is a heartier food for labouring people than wheaten bread, and 1 have frequently heard the same doctrine held in Scotland

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35. "You don't need to tell me, I was part of that, maybe not as recently as I pretended, but still only a few years ago, dealing with a flesh life inside that habitat

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36. his part, pretended he was looking at something else the

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37. For the time being at least, she pretended to believe in starships

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38. But Nerissa didn’t want to ask him to say nothing, so she pretended that the purpose was to catch a cricket for him

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39. After the boy fell asleep, she pretended that she was tired, too

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40. , To oblige a creditor, therefore, to accept of this as full payment for a debt of £100, actually paid down in ready money, was an act of such violent injustice, as has scarce, perhaps, been attempted by the government of any other country which pretended to be free

41. The government of Pennsylvania, indeed, pretended, upon their first emission of paper money, in 1722, to render their paper of equal value with gold and silver, by enacting penalties against all those who made any difference in the price of their goods when they sold them for a colony paper, and when they sold them for gold and silver, a regulation equally tyrannical, but much less, effectual, than that which it was meant to support

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42. I pretended to be drunk like usual, but the moly had blocked the tonic’s power

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43. Among all the absurd speculations that have been propagated concerning the balance of trade, it has never been pretended that either the country loses by its commerce with the town, or the town by that with the country which maintains it

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44. Nothing, therefore, it is pretended, can be more disadvantageous to any country, than the trade which consists in the exchange of such lasting for such perishable commodities

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45. Then Tragus would realize she’d only pretended to enjoy coupling with him and that it still was rape

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46. She pretended to be engrossed in her bathing to cover her reaction

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47. “Zarko!” She pretended to be shocked, but she wasn’t surprised

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48. As they give us their custom, it is pretended we should give them ours

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49. He grinned and pretended to think deeply for a moment

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50. There is no commercial country in Europe, of which the approaching ruin has not frequently been foretold by the pretended doctors of this system, from all unfavourably balance of trade

51. By means of them, our merchants and manufacturers, it is pretended, will be enabled to sell their goods as cheap or cheaper than their rivals in the foreign market

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52. Zarko pretended to think for a moment about her words

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53. The far greater part, almost the whole, they pretended, of this annual importation of gold, was not on account of Great Britain, but of other European nations; the fruits and wines of Portugal annually imported into Great Britain nearly compensating the value of the British goods sent thither

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54. The mother city, though she considered the colony as a child, at all times entitled to great favour and assistance, and owing in return much gratitude and respect, yet considered it as an emancipated child, over whom she pretended to claim no direct authority or jurisdiction

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55. Gemel i Carreri, a pretended traveller, it is said, indeed, but who seems everywhere to have written upon extreme good information, represents the city of Mexico as containing a hundred thousand inhabitants ; a number which, in spite of all the exaggerations of the Spanish writers, is

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56. “Oh, you mean like this?” Anna asked with pretended innocence

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57. The pretended purpose of it was to encourage the manufactures, and to increase the commerce of Great Britain

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58. The interest of this debt alone is not only greater than the whole extraordinary profit which, it never could be pretended, was made by the monopoly of the colony trade, but than the whole value of that trade, or than the whole value of the goods which, at an average, have been annually exported to the colonies

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59. A great revenue, half a million, perbaps {Since publishing the two first editions of this book, I have got good reasons to believe that all the turnpike tolls levied in Great Britain do not procduce a neat revenue that amounts to half a million ; a sum which, under the management of government, would not be sufficient to keep, in repair five of the principal roads in the kingdom}, it has been pretended, might in this manner be gained, without laying any new burden upon the people; and the turnpike roads might be made to contribute to the general expense of the state, in the same manner as the post-office does at present

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60. This branch of public police, accordingly, is said to be very much attended to in all those countries, but particularly in China, where the high-roads, and still more the navigable canals, it is pretended, exceed very much every thing of the same kind which is known in Europe

61. Whatever human reason could either conclude or conjecture concerning them, made, as it were, two chapters, though no doubt two very important ones, of the science which pretended to give an account of the origin and revolutions of the great system of the universe

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62. Everything belonging or related to so popular an order, its possessions, its privileges, its doctrines, necessarily appeared sacred in the eyes of the common people; and every violation of them, whether real or pretended, the highest act of sacrilegious wickedness and profaneness

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63. Government, it is pretended, could borrow this capital at three per cent

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64. Doc got on to his hands and knees and pretended to grovel

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65. pretended, though in general, perhaps, they do their duty fully as well as those of the customs ; yet, as that duty obliges them to be frequently very troublesome to some of their neighbours, commonly contract a certain hardness of character, which the others frequently have not

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66. She pretended that her values had changed and that their

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67. But she pretended not to notice

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68. pretended I was doing my utmost best to catch every word he said when in reality he could be

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69. The raising of the denomination of the coin has been the most usual expedient by which a real public bankruptcy has been disguised under the appearance of a pretended payment

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70. It would, indeed, be a pretended payment only, and the creditors of the public would really be defrauded of ten shillings in the pound of what was due to them

71. pretended payment of this kind, therefore, instead of

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72. The car roared all the way because he pretended that he didn’t

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73. More than once Adem was sure he caught Del making eyes at Jean! She seemed not to notice, or at least she pretended not to

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74. He murdered my brother in cold blood – if he had played on that, the public would have hated him, but he pretended that it hurt him and now everybody loves him

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75. He left the sales office and pretended to make a phone call

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76. The suits pretended not to notice anything, trying to look cool and unfazed, but they ate faster

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77. I pretended astonishment, then sat down, as it was obviously show time

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78. Either her team's stealth technology was so effective no one had any awareness of them, or the station’s staff pretended not to

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79. But he pretended they were not even there

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80. As he left the bar, with drink in hand and a pen-like communicator budded to his ear, he pretended to be in conversation

81. He could feel Hollowcrest’s eyes boring into his back, so he pretended to peruse the papers

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82. Sespian pretended to take a sip

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83. Lokdon claims to have pretended to join forces with him to unearth his plans and feed the information back to Hollowcrest, but something went badly between them, and now she wants to share all her information with you

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84. Of course, Hamlet went crazy in the end, or pretended he was crazy until there really was no difference

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85. Maybe the boss wasn’t quite so casual as he pretended to be

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86. But I couldn’t sit back while he shaped me, slowly, and pretended that he’d done nothing

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87. The maid pretended to not hear my nervousness

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88. Even though he hurried by without eye contact, and pretended to be zipping up his fly

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89. Carefully, bending under and forward, I unlatched the gun, and with some beef to it; pulled the gun into the loading position, and pretended to switch magazines

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90. Dave pretended not to be listening too intently

91. In fact, I pretended that I had never heard your name

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92. Pretended she was sleeping, she says

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93. I affected my best upper crust British accent and pretended to be Mia"s cousin, Reginald, visiting from England

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94. The two sergeants smoked cigars and sipped beer, exchanging stories and recollections, while Colling listened and pretended to work at his desk in the next office

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95. The museum was everything it pretended to be, and less

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96. ” He pretended to study the papers in his hand

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97. The man was everything he pretended to be

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