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It's 'like producing cigarettes, ' he said, pretending to puff on an imaginary cigarette in a meeting room at Geely's Hangzhou headquarters.

Beside me was a woman with a little girl in her arms. But in front of her, a young man occupied two seats, pretending to be sleeping.

I'm pretending? " I shook my head. " All those years of psych grad, " I said. " And to tell me that?

In short, she looks like a president, rather than like someone pretending to be one for a while.

Butterfly, has showed up in a picturesque town in Abruzzo, a mountainous region East of Rome, where he's pretending to be a photographer.

He waded through the resorts, pretending to be part of a seminar so he could get hot coffee and a roll.

I must say, Amy, pretending to have intercourse with you has given me a great deal of satisfaction.

He felt saddled to the wrong wife: "Even closing my eyes and pretending she was a horse didn't work after a while. "

It was a complicated thing, and I'm not pretending it was more simple than it was.

The clever ones threw a few limes and ears of corn into a shoulder bag and walked along pretending to be shoppers themselves.

But Miss Dwyer did not appear vexed, pretending indeed to be oblivious of everything else in admiration of the spectacle before her.

The tactics of pretending to cross the river and of making a retreat fooled the enemy.

When Miss Nightingale was a little girl , she used to like playing with her dolls and pretending to nurse them.

It is still reactivity, trying to brush off the attack, pretending it doesn't hurt, or awkwardly changing the topic.

'I used to run around the street with a fishbowl over my head pretending I was an astronaut.

One day she was playing her favourite game, pretending to make a garden, when one of the children, Basil, offered to help.

Pretending to keep a military threat on the table while trying to talk or bribe Iran out of going nuclear is not a bad policy.

Pretending to speak broken English as you dragged your valise, porter threepence, across the slimy pier AT Newhaven.

And all the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending.

I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding patter if I were not there for the day.

She made a pass at him: "I got rid of her by pretending to be drunk. "

Something that's helped me greatly is pretending as if what I'm doing is the only thing that exists at this time in the universe.

You know, going to work and pretending to be someone's not even parent but their stepparent.

It was no use pretending that I had not seen him, so I waved to him.

Their party coasted on protest votes for years, latterly pretending to be some sort of left-wing conscience for Labour.

he had been playing with a cleaver , holding down a stalk of coilgrass while he chopped, pretending it was the tail of a dragon.

Only nowadays all the cocks are cackling and pretending to lay eggs, and all the hens are crowing and pretending to call the sun out of bed.

Pretending not to hear us, she reaches into the cabinet for a box of Bisquick. "Please. How hard can it be? Who wants pancakes? "

Pretending to put hands, I would like to rest for a time being, do not want to ignore some people and things.

Actually running a household sort of takes the novelty out of pretending to make dinner, do the ironing, and tidy the kitchen.

Begging some privacy, and pretending not to be in the best of health, I promised to resume my duties as fast as I possibly could.

I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.

No, she was just jumping around the stage pretending to sing with a lot of other musicians and dancers.

She was always snubbing her old friends by pretending not to see them.

It was no use pretending that I had not seen him.

So let's not cloud the facts by pretending that this sort of spending is Bush's fault.

This is not just a confused individual pretending to be the returned Christ, there are lots of those including a few on GLP too.

Nothing to be surprised about. For me it was even more surprising to see for how long he was pretending to be in opposition.

Pretending to speak seriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the station.

Shopping For this study researchers set themselves up in a mall pretending to carry out a consumer survey on nightgowns and nylon stockings.

There was a tread on the stairs and she hurriedly bent over, pretending to be tucking in the child.

Oh! Kept playing love like it was just a game, pretending to feel the same, turn around, leave again.

By and by the young lady came out, passed Jimmy again, pretending not to see him, and went on her way.

If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were just pretending to be dumb to get people's sympathy.

Then he took out his morning letters, and begin to read, pretending to take no more notice of the old man.

He is nothing but a hypocrite, pretending that he knows nothing about it.

It was just a garden variety platinum nucleus pretending to be a monopole by cleverly decaying into osmium and tantalum.

I sat silently in the cab, pretending I did not understand Chinese and trying hard to look like an international relief worker.

He tried hard to hold himself in, pretending not to hear the sad news.

Google ought to stop pretending it's trying to build a new revenue-generating business.

At the height of the Cultural Revolution, the poor man was castigated for putting on airs, pretending to be a "local" Chairman Mao.

Hanfeng had asked, pretending that he did not understand and knowing that she could see through him.

Nidal, with his cheeky smile, had crawled around on all fours pretending to be a cat, miaowing daringly round the legs of the girls.

I was pretending to be another man, but losing my own heart. On my first visit, we sat together for a long time, talking of this and that.

Isn't it a risk pretending to be her in front of the entire town?

pretending to cross the river and of making a retreat fooled the enemy.

But William is too busy eating his cornflake and engrossed in his own microcosm while pretending to be an observant critic of China.

When repressed sex becomes anger, you are at a loss to understand that this is sex and nothing else -- now pretending as anger.

It is time to stop pretending that we are about to see a "grand bargain" for the eurozone in March.

"She would hold the bundle like a doll, pretending it was him, " he said.

Steve Martin was pretending that he had gotten such pleasure from this thing he thought was a drug that he wanted to recommend it to others.

I am not pretending to be patriotic, for I truly believe that there will not be a happy family for all people if there is no peace.

They are prepared to go to any length to try to keep control, while pretending to come in friendship.

Hey, Han Jia, I found I wasn't the only one pretending to be the owner of this stall.

I'd hate to be a new freelancer write now, trying to set myself apart from the people pretending to know what they are doing.

My need for you is so strong that I cannot help pretending too much.

Sometimes adults would tease Benjamin, pretending to give or to show him something, but then withdrawing the promised reward.

Howard: I know all your shirts. That's not one of them. . . You were pretending to work at the Genius Bar to pick up women, weren't you?

On my own, pretending he's beside me. All alone I walk with him till morning.

Sometimes they would even be sloppily dressed , pretending to be as ugly as possible, therefore the evil spirits would not approach them.

Researchers found that longtime couples were best able to rekindle romance by pretending they were strangers on a first date.

And when the cost of pretending becomes intolerably high for a few citizens, sudden and surprising mass protests can erupt.

He made a hoax call pretending to be the boss.

Then the group split up. Three, wearing civilian clothes and pretending to be workers, raided the guard tower to steal weapons and a truck.

The Distress Committee was not the only body pretending to deal with the poverty problem.

That's in an emotional sense, not in a scary wearing a wig, pretending to be your own twin way.

He missed him, old Thunder's pretending, I think. . . . See, what did I tell you? It's one of his tricks.

Instead of talking about my feelings and my frustration I just kept pretending as if everything were OK.

Maybe I will be very upset without you, but I will still choose to live bravely although I may be pretending to do so.

You cannot master everything in life so stop pretending you know everything from fixing the pipe to cooking and evenaccounting.

It dawns on the previous Wolf pretending to be sleeping, is used to lure the enemy.

The opening party scenes were filmed without music, and the guests in the background were silently pretending to talk to one another.

Indeed, the British, normally the most suspicious of euro-integration, are pretending that it does not matter.

Spend one hour a day or one day a week pretending to be them.

How marvelous were my fancied adventures as I sat on a hard park bench pretending to be immersed in a trembling book.

ALI: You know, Father, he isn't really an ice cream man. He's just pretending. He's really a secret agent.

Digg and Wikipedia would do well to stop pretending they're operated by the many and start thinking of ways to rein in the power of the few.

In fact he says they have no "eye" at all, and just pretend to love what everyone else happens to be pretending to love.

Real galleries, for reference, do not send English students out onto the streets pretending to be art students.

I thought she was just pretending to be sick to get my attention.

Did they really feel hungry at times, or were they merely pretending, because Peter had such a jolly new way of feeding them?

For him she was a guilty woman pretending to be an innocent one.

Chang returned to the king the prime minister's seal, pretending to resign from his position before leaving for Ch'u.

At the very least, they should stop pretending that he is living up to the bargain he made in 2005.

Pretending he hadn't noticed this, Harry sat down and took the toast Mrs. Weasley offered him.

But somewhere along the line, politicians stepped out of Constitutional bounds and started pretending to solve our problems for us.

In another instance, a male chimp was seen with his own stick dolly after he saw his mom was pregnant, pretending to care for it.

Sometimes he stopped at the fireplace, and sometimes at the door, pretending to stare with great interest into shop windows.

It is quite common to see the majority of society pretending they don't like or want anything to do with sex.

All these years I have been a slave to humans, hiding my true nature and pretending to be dumb and witless like their horses.

But I still want to tell you, pretending to do it unwittingly.

I'm pretending it's not your birthday, just as you wished.

Pretending to be happy can actually make you more miserable - especially if you're a woman, according to a new study.

is the practice of using or copying someone else's idea or work and pretending that you thought of it or created it.

Apraxia may also primarily affect oral, non-speech movements, like pretending to cough or blow out a candle (facial apraxia).

And after pretending for years that she does not exist, in July the official press published a commentary by her.

He compounded this original sin both by pretending that everything was on track and by adopting the rhetoric of his enemies.

It was now lunch time and they were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened.

Practically speaking, this does not mean pretending that adults with autism do not need help.

Even when I was a child, pretending to be serious but in fact making jokes to cause troubles had been very easy for me.

I like this episode the most because I can see Khun pretending to be a bad boy to see his wife's response.

The last hit was decisive , and Valentina Vezzali made it by pretending to move backwards before making an astonishing attack .

"Pretending. I believe the professional name for it might be denial, " I said. "Are you calling me gay? "

Winters are, pretending to be a old body of Carson from his hometown in the Baraska.

To test for problems of this kind, we substituted calibration data for the quasar data and analyzed them, pretending they were quasar data.

We made bonfire, sat on the ground, perturbed in mind, but pretending to be strong, praying secretly for a safe night.

He hurried across, pretending not to notice, but in his mind was a world of thoughts.

A possible reason for her laughing after she destroys something or pretending not to care is Mom's response to how she is disciplined.

He came to the annual conference pretending to be a shareholder and hoped no one would blow his cover.

Forgive me for pretending to be cruel, I was just afraid of being hurt once again.

After recuperating for a few months, he has gone back to work, pretending nothing has happened.

There are those here, who sit in the chairs, who say that this man speaking is pretending to channel.

He won trust from his boss by pretending to be an honest man.

Oh, pretending to be madly active, I suppose. Activity suggests a life filled with purpose.

Other less frequent activities included reading instant messaging logs, using monitoring software and pretending to be another person.

Perhaps i will be very sad for all those days without you, but i will live on bravely, even though i was just pretending.

Instead , it has spent the past six or seven years pretending not to see the obvious .

When a person's facial expression is not symmetrical on both sides of the face, it is likely that they are pretending to feel the emotion.

encountered in the wild snakes do? Don't panic, with a gentle smile hold up an umbrella, pretending to be Xu Xian.

Social communication stars wore glasses. Bridegrooms wore blue glasses. Even prostitutes wore glasses pretending to be students.

Every time I post any little information to the net, they will follow me by post lots of things pretending to be different people.

Come the day when the roses bloom. Pretending not to know, you made those splendid flowers mine and said goodbye.

As I handed her a $5 bill from my own pocket, pretending I had found it on the floor, she refused it at first.

screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.

Show the children a picture of a lion and make a loud lion's roar , pretending you are pouncing towards the children .

We were not like ordinary little girls who frittered away their time hosting tea parties and pretending to be princesses.

So now we've got the set consisting of the premises just as they are plus we are pretending the conclusion is false.

A few years ago, I spent a day at Korn Ferry pretending to be a headhunter.

Sometimes, I'd find myself pretending I'd been hurt just to have that ritual with her.

I shall return home: it is folly dragging you from the hearthstone, and pretending--what do we pretend?

Bar boss has been watching the girl to dance, while pretending not to see one side.

Since the parties cannot agree, diplomats on all sides have merely been pretending that genuine negotiations are taking place.

I gave him a wank while pretending to be his mum.

My friends had also told me this : 'If you want to disguise yourself, you must believe that you're the person you're pretending to be.

Mary came to the annual meeting pretending to be a shareholder and hoped no one would blow her cover.

pretending to be sick, someone from work will just happen to be at the end of my street.

she would torment them by pretending their marriage was just about to happen. It never did.

"I'm not pretending that we in Europe are directly inspiring him. But until recently we feared that we were preaching in the desert. "

Tadesse: But she may be really smart and pretending to be ditzy.

"I'll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I'm not there, " he said.

She twirled her hair playfully, pretending not to notice how he shifted uncomfortably in her presence.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect, than spending my whole life pretending to be.

She blended in easily, pretending to be one of the many war widows.

She lived a lie for 20 years by pretending to be his wife.

This is much better than pretending to understand a question and giving an unsuitable answer.

Pretending I'm in the scene in Rocky where he's running through the town and up the steps to the city hall.

His wife understood very little of the book , but the boy , pretending to sleep , understood every word .

I'm not pretending it's classy , and I'm not saying you emerge with extra points for dignity. I'm just saying it's a fact of life.

Outfitted for my role in a boxy gray suit, I walked from desk to desk, pretending to talk to fellow agents.

She spoke without looking at me, pretending to be less interested in our conversation than in the life passing by the window.

In one shot, they wear traditional garb, the bride pretending to light a string of firecrackers. Mr. Zhou mugs a grimace, hands to his ears.

Pretending to punch him in the stomach.

To make further progress, we have to stop pretending that cutting this kind of spending alone will be enough.

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

pretending to understand a question and giving an unsuitable answer.

The giant software houses are pouring enormous energy into process of creating code, playing God, and pretending to be servants of mankind.

Understand this in front of the wolf pretending to sleep, was used to lure the enemy.

We would spend all day pretending to fight the trolls, or the murlocs, or the girls.

Krishnamurti: (touching my left knee) Ah! I'm glad you don't wear a mask like so many that come to me pretending to be saints.

Ask yourself: What am I pretending not to see?

We were pretending that we were in an imaginary forest.

Try not pretending someone who you are not. The object of your desire soon will feel the lies and feints.

Frank shrugged, pretending not to care, but I knew better.

The Jedi paused, pretending to look in a store window at the end of the block.

But because he is pretending to be a deranged right-winger, his questions about policy are much easier for liberals to parry.

A common scenario is that the attacker calls the shopper, pretending to be a representative from a site visited, and extracts information.

Jiang hid letter of surrender in his pocket and returned to the bed, pretending that he was sill asleep.

Let's simplify by pretending that I did not have Improved Steady Shot at all, and we'll make these numbers my base numbers.

Tips that you should do are pretending that you were already knew where to go, so they won't bother you a lot.

Be creative pretending to be the President, Mickey Mouse, or the latest music superstar.

Sometimes those belief systems are so utterly opposed that embracing the conflict is preferable to pretending it may be painlessly resolved.

Moreover, say what you like about the romantic delusions around The One, but at least it was fun pretending.

Orchid is orchid, any pretending to be amorous metropolis hampers we are opposite the understanding of the thing.

But as a first step toward understanding one another, we can do better than pretending we all think the same.

My hair was long enough to cover this dreadful secret. I relied heavily on lip-reading and pretending.

Discarded try to be brave, or pretending to be naughty eyes, weak to effortlessly life.

He turned aside pretending not to see me.

The show also featured an interview with an actor pretending to be Obama.

One of the striking things about today's world is that it is full of despots pretending to be democrats.

A great many popular jokes in China have to do with scholars reading novels privately and publicly pretending never to have heard of them.

Yet, a positive attitude is not about pretending a rosy future for yourself. It's about living and enjoying life in the present.

Right now , you are pretending to be a time killer.

Julia Roberts: Pretending to be a parent is a cakewalk compared to being a parent.

But after that, she doesn't have the pride and the pretending any more. Only thing left, is her body with the sadness.

Pretending that the anger is not there is a form of resistance toward the anger.

In the village of his early childhood he had played with grasshoppers, pretending they were airplanes.

I spent no time talking or even pretending to be interested in the men.

The girls sit squished on two cement bricks in the back of the class, pretending to be invisible.

come to me , i love you can you see why do you turn your back, pretending not to hear.

I really do not know i am a true feelings and Pretending.

That's much more than simply saying "I forgive" and pretending we've dealt with it.

"Walking around and pretending it doesn't exist just means you're going to become irrelevant, " Mr. Gingrich said in an interview.

Enjoy pretending to play different characters with you or talking for dolls or action figures?

But Mom, as wonderful as our relationship has been, I'm not pretending it was always peaceful and perfect.

"Certainly" , remarked Harlow, pretending to be suddenly converted to Owen's view.

They made a fool of me by pretending I won the award.

I got seduced by a girl pretending to be someone else, and you knew.

something that it ' s pretending to be ? - yes , it ' s perfectly fine.

The exercise was not about distorting my fear in the other direction, pretending I was made of rock.

He picked up a microphone, pretending to talk about with people is a large business.

Please translate: The dishonest engineers passed off a poorly built bridge by pretending it was well constructed.

Many view the requirement that they stand in place, pretending that all is well, to be unbearable.

You don't know a thing about us unless we tell you, so stop pretending like you actually care when you don't.

Regrettably, these commentators wished to increase their own self- importance by pretending that they had witnessed a historic event.

Disabled Sun Bin was not discouraged and tricked Pang Juan by pretending to be mad .

Jack Sparrow: [pretending not knowing it's Elizabeth] Deeply flattered, son, but my first and only love is the sea.

So discipline yourself to look for what this presenter is doing well (you're still pretending you're watching someone else).

And if you imagine a kid pretending to be King Kong, or a race car driver, or a fireman, they don't all become race car drivers or firemen.

The father tried to stay near her in intensive care, pretending that he himself was dying.

If you don't know it, write him an email pretending to be a customer and look at his return headers.

First he stops the production in the cloud while pretending to be on scheduled maintenance.

Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.

Fanon: Instead of pretending to be white shit, black shit should violently overthrow colonialism.

The first is for the best noun pretending to be a verb.

pretending to be madly active, I suppose.

I always ask you to eat, pretending to have nice appetite.

Methinks Jim was not as ignorant as he was pretending.

Once the video conference is over, you can quit pretending like you're working and go back to your Playbook gaming.

Here's an example of what all this pretending might look like.

One of the comedies of working life is pretending to care about big things.

The research found that women suffered more than men when pretending to be happy.

China is a civilisation pretending to be a nation-state.

acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another.

Today survey had cheated on a partner while pretending to be faithful.

So pretending to be tall may confer a sexual and thereby evolutionary advantage.

Look, here she comes now - bow down and stare in wonder. Oh, how we love you. No flaws when you're pretending. . .

This, in turn, allows many people to be "friends" without pretending the sexual elephant isn't in the room or to simply have casual sex.

You go away right now or I call police to tell them there is one guy here pretending as a goverment officer!

And then, while pretending to search me for guns or knives, he abused me sexually.

I should face reality and tell all my friends. But I've just been pretending.

I don't like the way it's pretending to be wood.

The kids shuffle off, rinsing the "wound" under cold water, packing it with gauze, and pretending to take their charges to the hospital.

The robbers entered people's homes by pretending to be building inspectors.

Zombies are the best imaginary enemy because they let you indulge in psychotic fantasies while still pretending to be the good guy.

Don't forget about software security when pretending to be the customer.

You should never ever have to call me up pretending.

He attacked Mr Obama for (unfairly) pretending that there is no difference between him and the present incumbent.

Now, what's this business about pretending to think differently?

Who else could you be? You can act and pretend, but the person acting and pretending is still you.

So, we all should stop pretending - mixing business and pleasure is not a good idea anyway.