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She pretended to be reading when her mother came into her room.

His eyes instant dark down, And I, I can only pretended to be invisible.

My father was always praising her to my sisters and to me, be- cause she pretended to nothing she did not feel.

Then he got his break his wife pretended to faint and the intruder who was holding him went into the other room to see what was happening.

The other man could not climb trees. So he threw himself on the ground, closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.

hoped they had not left their hearts behind them in Sussex, and pretended to see them blush whether they did or not.

The doctor pretended to be interested and said, "Shut your eyes and stick your tongue out of your mouth. "

He decided to help me but I pretended to have finished my job.

Zhuge Liang pretended to be very calm and succeeded in fooling Sima Yi who did not know that the city was really unguarded .

She freely admitted that of old she had been a little mad, and now she pretended to be perfectly sane.

I doubted that, though there were several she could have married at a nod of her head, but I pretended to be surprised.

From its beginnings the film pretended to be able to document and represent life in a way that was inaccessible to the traditional arts.

pretend to understand type new to a unit, obviously do not know what, but also desperately pretended to know everything looks like.

Jaroslaw, who pretended to be the prince, passed the ruins daily on his way to work as a director of the town's community center.

When the man took a second biscuit, I didn't look up and I didn't make a sound. I pretended to be very interested in the puzzle.

When you were in love, you used to show only the good faces you had. Yes you pretended to be good and hided rest of your faces.

Even though the children pretended to be asleep, the nurses were not deceived when they came into the room.

"It is certainly rather hard upon him, for he was a faithful servant, " said the shadow; and he pretended to sigh.

You say your decision, I listen quietly with silence, instead of the words, and pretended to be okay with that of o expression.

I sat down in a chair and pretended to read a book, but out of the corner of my eye I kept watching Petey.

For two years, she attended a girl's school during the day, came home, and pretended to be a boy on the badminton court, she said.

that boy pretended to be ill when he knew i would ask him for help.

Even as a child, Christine Whipp, now a 46-year-old grandmother, says she was aware that somehow life was not as it pretended to be.

The kid , just sat before the computer and played the happy farm . I asked him to be serious and he pretended to hear nothing.

Once, indeed, a woman pretended to care for me, and I lavished all the pent-up affection of my nature upon her.

Was he participating in the larger hypocrisy of a society that pretended to value brooms over silk but in reality did not?

His father, in an attempt to calm him down, palmed a penny from his pocket and pretended to pull it from Sammy's ear. Sammy was delighted.

She said that she had pretended to be a mail in order tO get a job with the company, which did not employ women.

He stayed in his den, lying down there, and pretended to be sick. He took care that his sickness should be publicly known.

A week later, sly Lucia pretended to be sad once more and told Silver Nose she wanted news of her mother.

She pretended to be friendly as if nothing had happened between them.

Hearing her mother coming upstairs, she quickly put the toys away and pretended to be doing his home work.

She swears she didn't mean to leave Nurse Ellen down there to die. In the same way she says she only pretended to kidnap the children.

Though I knew there were several she could have married at a nod of her head, but I pretended to be surprised.

After a while the playboy began the next part of his plan. He pretended to be sick and stayed in bed.

last night when I inspected the boys' dorm, I heard someone talking, when I stopped to see, all the boys pretended to be asleep.

The baby cuckoo pretended to be caring and said to her, "don't worry, mother, I'll take care of you once I grow up" .

In one meeting, he pretended to need to relieve himself of his last Diet Coke so he could get out into the corridor to retch.

He nervously played with a paper clip and pretended to read a report I had prepared on how I would build my business if I was hired.

Julia ran afar to Mandeni's palace where Arius was. She got in, pretended to be a servant there and went straight to Arius's room.

Julia left the door open and crossed to the sofa, sat where she could see him, and pretended to thumb through Psychology Today.

His attendants pretended to pick up the long train at the back of his cloak.

The bridegroom pretended to be very angry and spoke sharply, then quickly drew his sharp knife, ran towards the horse and cut its throat.

He pretended to be doing homework carefully when his mother came in.

When he saw me yesterday, she turned immediately and made out (=pretended) to be reading.

Each 'client' showed up with a portfolio and a preferred investing strategy. About a third pretended to like chasing hot returns.

The soldiers pretended to run away and the enemy, in pursuing them, were finally trapped .

eg: The football player pretended to run forward, then cut back and took the ball the other way.

Well, he never pretended to be a good father.

When his mother came in, he pretended to be doing his homework.

The debt collectors pretended to be law enforcement officers and threatened consumers with arrest and incarceration if they failed to pay.

I quickly closed my eyes and pretended to be still asleep.

He, the son of a Tory-supporting lawyer, has never pretended to be a member of the socialist tribe.

Ashamed and embarrassed by his fears, Andy pretended to be asleep while his cellmate stood by the window and watched below.

She pretended to be pregnant with blankets in her clothes while her sister acted as a baby.

He no longer came quite close to them as formerly. He seated himself at a distance and pretended to be reading; why did he pretend that?

A healthy young man was chosen, and he lay in bed and pretended to be very ill.

As she spoke she stepped forward and pretended to put her head in the oven.

I pretended to think it over and kept quiet for a while, when my son was anxiously waiting on my decision.

So. . . Do you think you can find it in your heart to love somebody who pretended to be straight just to get laid?

He was afraid he might miss the chance of killing Ali Baba, but he pretended to be enjoying her dances.

He pretended to be reading that book when his mother entered.

She pretended to be reading when her mother came in.

pretended to dress him in his new clothes. He dressed quickly.

He pretended to understand the full implications of his teacher's remark .

Tom pretended to be reading when his mother came in.

He pretended to be sleeping when his mother came in.

He pretended to be reading when his mother came in.

The boy pretended to be doing his homework when his mother came in.

She often pretended to have got a stomachache after meal and sneaked out of washing dishes.

He pretended to be sleeping when his mother called him.

He has pretended to too many women and I hate this sort of man.

He pretended to be asleep when his mother came in.

In earlier times, they either pretended to understand how things worked or simply made up stories to give answers.

After a few days, holding empty needles, they pretended to be sewing.

The two men set up weaving looms, began to refer to patterns, and pretended to be making cloth.

He pretended to be a businessman from Guangdong, but his Beijing accent gave him away.

Wet and cold, I pretended to be fascinated by the sweaters in the tourist shop until I had dried off a bit.

He pretended to be asleep when his mother called him.

He and his officers had pretended to be loyal for millennia, while in reality they were building their strength in secret.

He stared at them from an adjacent room, where he pretended to be reading and sighed.

The cheats pretended to dress him in his new clothes.

The boy pretended to be reading when his mother came in.

I did not pretended to show strong, I am also afraid of the dark, I am also afraid Natiao long, overcast deep way.

Bill pretended to be a cleaner which helped him to escape from prison .

Noah, who was twice Oliver's size, pretended to rub tears from his eyes.

She was very sad, but she smiled and pretended to be having a good time anyway.

She went to her sisters, who pretended to be sorry for her.

The little girl pretended to be asleep when her mother entered the room.

i pretended to be asleep , and through the cracks of my eyelids i watched his sardonic but handsome old face.

They set up two looms, and pretended to be very hard at work, but they did nothing whatever on the looms.

At first , Zhuge Liang pretended to be weak, so Meng Huo continued to pursue him .

She pretended to be an old woman and tricked Snow into drinking the mixture.

Mark Twain pretended to be silly and laugh at the foolishness of the feodal religions publicly and well-intentionally.

He had always pretended to be people who were better than himself, starting in childhood with Tom Sawyer and Davy Crockett.

As one Eurocrat puts it, "they pretended to implement the human rights commitment. We pretended to open up our programmes and policies. "

The princess pretended to be amazed and begged him to do it again.

When he arrived , Judge Li said , she pretended to be stuck on a long telephone call . Exasperated , the man finally left .

Then he pretended to give Sarah a chance to pick up his gun and forced him to let her go.

Uriah himself seemed rather surprised to see us, but pretended to welcome us as old friends.

Last time, he even pretended to be a podiatrist in order to fondle and suck a woman's toes at a clothing store.

She sat up straight and pretended to believe in herself, so much so that she actually started believing in herself.

Kaifulee: U pretended to be me for 3 months. You've been reasonable, but with the Reuter's coverage, had to get my name back.

I don't trap you and pretended to be indifferent to you.

But I had to lie to the company and pretended to be a man in order to get a job.

You perfect disguise, I can only pretended to be unconcerned.

She pretended to be a lawyer, and her maid, Nerissa (N), dressed herself as a lawyer's clerk.

'Now, have you got nothing to say? ' said one of the swindlers, while he pretended to be busily weaving.

The next day, Zhou Yu pretended to quarrel with Huang Gai and had him whipped infront of everyone.

He pretended to be casual about the result of the competition.

I admonished him with a serious tone and pretended to know what I was saying.

He pretended to be reading a book when his mother came back.

Wen took his advice and pretended to be ill and stopped attending imperial court meetings. But it was too late.

He lay down on the ground and pretended to be dead when the bear came near.

But in a moment of faustian proportions, I pretended to be straight.

Mr. Greenberg, who doesn't play the game, had famously pretended to swing a club and loudly announced he was taking the next day off.

She pretended to be listening, but actually her mind had already wandered far away.

No, because you'd only be pretending to be good. . . just like your dad pretended to be a good father.

Mary pretended to be cheerful and said nothing about the argument.

The inspector seized the impostor who pretended to be a visitor of the emperor's.

When us from the fairy tale wakes that moment, we pretended to be strong enough to face the world, lonely and harsh.

I pretended to point at something and as she turned around to look, I pulled out the ring.

I pretended to smile and tried to kid with him.

"Ruff . . . . . . Worried to death I, bad guy. " First she pretended to cry, and then toot has small mouth and said.

Believe that through our efforts, China's green will flourish and pretended to be splendid, rivers into me.

Propping my rod next to Dad and his newspaper, I walked over to my brothers and pretended to untangle their lines.

Suddenly I found the man stood up and walked towards her. He pretended to look for something on the ground by her feet.

But if Kohts sat down and pretended to cry, the chimp would go to her immediately.

I sampled alternative lifestyles and pretended to be a different person.

We pretended to fail and withdraw. The enemies left the top of the hill and tried to drive us.

He pretended to be French but his American accent gave him away.

He pretended to be English but his foreign accent gave him away.

I pretended to be jealous of her. Yue was very very cheerful.

Lai Junchen immediately pretended to be very earnest, saying, "Oh, please do tell me at once. "

Rumors have since surfaced online that he's actually an aspiring actor who just pretended to be rich to get on the show.

Some pretended to be beggars while others pretended they were friars .

He did not respond when the judge harangued him, would look at none of the evidence against him, and pretended to go to sleep.

Although he pretended to be calm, his pale face gave him away.

No, I'm not really a Twitter fan, though I believe someone made one up and pretended to be me.

"But how do you know? " I pretended to be at a loss.

And if he had pretended to be Mormon or Buddhist or an atheist?

For this purpose, she jumped up onto a peg, and suspending herself from it, pretended to be dead.

In the photos, the girls wore lingerie and pretended to lick a penis-shaped lollipop. None of the photos made any reference to the school.

He pretended to be doing his homework when he heard his father's sound.

But when Cathy pretended to cry, Hareton could not bear to make her sad, and he threw the letter down on the table.

"He pretended to be this great fellow, but we all know that confident people do not have to blow their horn like that, " Baker tells Jacobs.

His son pretended to be reading when he came in.

She pretended to be interested, but I could see she wasn't.

He pretended to be listening to the doctor attentively.

We are bathed in warmth of Spring Festival, without a doubt that he pretended to be happy.

But I still pretended to be single at work, as colleagues my age are all single and it is a bit weird for them to know I am married.

She provoked me till I felt quite frantic, yet she herself pretended to be indifferent and aloof.

Japanese Buddhist named Ekai Kawaguchi pretended to be a Chinese physician.

During exercises, Pakistani soldiers pretended to be dead or injured.

Afterwards, I pretended to be cheerful, but Hannah sensed something was wrong.

"If only I had pretended to like the medicine, " was what Nana's wet eyes said.

He pretended to be in high spirits. He wore exhausted smiles, though.

He pretended to have had his supper.

The human beings could not contain their rage when they heard this song, though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous.

When the police came , he pretended to be the manager which did harm to him.

Another individual from the same town as the imposter pretended to be Cleverley's bodyguard.

I liked that so much I often pretended to be asleep when I wasn't.

eg. Sometimes they even pretended to be friendly with my family.

Picking it up he pretended to use it as a walking stick.

M pretended to be angry and take this chance to kill the bodyguard. After all of those things, he became the king successfully.

Actors may not be able to sing so at first other musicians sang the songs for the programme while the band pretended to sing them.

She pretended to be a man in order to get a good job.

Smith pretended to be a professor which helped him much.

Holmes told Sir Henry that he and I had to go to London. We pretended to do so; but returned to.

At last, my hand phone rang. I pretended to be called for and quickly showed him my clean heels.

Think Fast quickly rolled his belly up and pretended to be dead.

The children pretended to eat the mud pies.

He pretended to be kind and charitable and smiled at the old man.

Talk about your past, you young every female friends, talk about my past, I pretended to forget the men.

pretended to be friendly with me.

When Mom came upstairs to check on us children, I turned over and pretended to be asleep.

There are also claims that Sunday Times pretended to be Mr Brown in order to get details from his bank.

The thief pretended to be a lady to go away.

"Henry, " a red-haired man in a fireman's suit said to me as I pretended to sleep in the hiding place.

She laughed and pretended to box my ears with her little hands.

He pretended to be impressed by their new car but he was only acting a part.

The soldiers pretended to run away and the enemies, in pursing them, were finally trapped.

I pretended to be strong, smiling at everyone , could you hear the words from my heart ?

Pretend I'm neat. What? pretend m-- Well, look, he pretended to be me, so it's only fair.

The invading demons pretended to retreat and then swiftly attacked the night elves from the air.

He pretended to be a buyer and chatted with sellers.

Not long before this moment, Abraham and Sarah again pretended to be brother and sister (Genesis 20).

He pretended to be indifferent to the news .

When his father entered his room, he pretended to be doing his homework.

The stranger pretended to offer to tell her fortune.

We never pretended to be lesbians, its just what people though of us.

She pretended to be a lawyer, and her maid, Nerissa.

Shintaro was not blind - he only pretended to be blind, and so should this poor kitty. Taro was his name.

He had read that girls always pretended to stop men who complimented them.

Some called Mr. Cochran an idiot, some pretended to insult others and then asked, 'Uh-oh, did I send that to all? '

He pretended to be doing homework when his father came in.

He pretended to be a policeman but really he wasn't.

He pretended to be listening attentively.

The volunteers were asked to explain the reasons why they pretended to orgasm and how they felt about sexual intimacy.

In order to avenge the murder of his father, Hamlet pretended to be insane.

love of Sister run I pretended to be sick and lay in bed reluctant to get up.

Some in the Iraqi military have pretended to surrender, then opened fire on coalition forces that showed them mercy.

I pretended to examine the dressing on my arm to hide my surprise at the direction our conversation had taken.

So I just nodded and pretended to have a coughing fit, but it was pretty high pitched.

Day after day they pretended to weave their remarkable cloth on looms that were, in fact, empty.

He pretended to be dead when he met a bear.

I shut my eyes to mere slits and pretended to be sleeping.

pretend The young actor pretended to be Hamlet.

She pretended to sleep when her mother called her.

Robin ordered drinks for both himself and the tinker . The tinker downed his greedily but Robin only pretended to drink .

When the boss came in, she pretended to be reading an important file.

The survivor pretended to be dead until help arrived.

Dress sb in sth. The two cheats pretended to dress the Emperor in his new clothes.

He pretended to have been studying.

He pretended to be reading an important paper when the boss came in.

She told reporters that she pretended to be dead in order to survive.

Outside the safe house, the man who pretended to be an FBI agent at the clinic phones Andre Drazen.

He pretended to be asleep when his parents came in.

The two cheats pretended to be working very hard.

While the band was playing, he just stood in the line and pretended to be performing, but actually made no sound.

"My bed mate pretended to be asleep" (George W. Cable).

She pretended to be studying when her mom came in.

So cool they even pretended to be happy about seeing Bush.

The students pretended to be discussing a difficult problem when the headmaster came in.

The two cheats pretended to be working hard.

Travis, because he pretended to spit on me and tickled me and he's always joking around.

Sometimes you have to smile and pretended to be all good, endure tears, turn and walk away.

They pretended to have attended the lecture.

The thief who pretended to be a manager was caught stealing a car.

If she wanted ice cream she wrapped her arms around herself and pretended to shiver.

When the mother came home , the child pretended to be sleeping.

They pretended to be businessmen.

A coach was hereupon sent for, or pretended to be sent for.

He put his finger on the trigger and pretended to shoot a soldier on top of the hay bale.

He pretended to have finished his homework.

So the two men set up two looms and pretended to be working very hard.

He pretended to be looking for something.

Mr. Nathan pretended to be angry, "Don't show off. "

I tipped about the future as well as some pasts . Fang threw her gaze onto me, I pretended to make a deep breath.

Local officials pretended to investigate, then issued a false report.

I pretended to be thrilled, but was sick with envy.

He pretended to look for something on the ground by her feet.

Then he pretended to bean old man, walking round and round the room with a stick.

At first, I pretended to myself that I only wanted to participate in the scholarly debate, or its political and moral fervor.

He was pretended to read an important document when the boss came in.

When I saw her, she pretended to be sleeping.

Alex pretended to be sad at the funeral.

He pretended to be busy at his studies when I walked in.

He pretended to abilities which he didn't actually possess.

a. They pretended to be working hard all night with their lights burning.