The actors pretended to work differently.
He pretended to scalp me with his sword.
With an effort, he held in his feelings and pretended not to hear the sad news.
A sage like Confucius had pretended to be ill in order to trick Ju pei into leaving, and even Mencius had lied to King Hsuan of Ch'i and pretended that he was ill.
She sat up straight and pretended to believe in herself, so much so that she actually started believing in herself.
"Xifeng and Jia Rong pretended not to have heard, whereas Baoyu in the carriage was rather entertained by this drunken outburst."
The novelist pretended to fall in love with the queen, went to Windsor and lay down on the ground outside the castle to show his passion, to the considerable surprise of passers-by.
At about1:00 pm, finally found a restaurant, no opened, the boss was having a big dinner with his friends, I pretended to be suffering hunger and cold, persuaded him many times, as last he would like to give some food to me.
She pretended illness as an excuse.
The chairman pretended he know the final profit.
But Jesus pretended not to be interested or care about her problem.
They pretended they could not make any proposal, because it might be made use of against them.
Betty was ripped off by some guy who pretended to have discovered a gold ring, which turned out to be a fake one.
For the rest of that evening she behaved as if nothing had happened and she pretended she didn't notice that everyone was looking at her and treating her with unusual respect.
He pretended not to know the facts.
Flinging her arm before her face, the small girl pretended to burst into tears.
Had he been on deck, he could no longer so much as have pretended not to understand the situation.
He often put the bed-room chairs together to look like a motor-car. Then he sat in the front one and pretended to drive, making terrible engine noises all the time.
They pretended to work hard.
Pig, the pretended girl, in a hurry swirled his rake at the spirit.
He was sent into southern France in 1944. He encountered a German machine gun crew who pretended they were surrendering, then shot his best buddy.
And you continue to tweet, as the silence begins to remind you of Junior High when the cool kids pretended you didn’t exist. (I don’t know about this first hand, of course — but I’ve read stories.)
He now pretended the leg would not get well.
Ashamed and embarrassed by his fears, Andy pretended to be asleep while his cellmate stood by the window and watched below.
At first I pretended to refuse.
He pretended not to know his visitors and gave every sign that he had taken leave of his senses.
He pretended not to hear the sentence politely.
Unable to bring the stool back again, he quietly sneaked down from the seat, sat back down in his place behind the door, and pretended that he had done nothing at all.
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 for something.
Researchers videotaped a cadre of second-year MBA students as they pretended to interview for a job.
He pretended to be English but his foreign accent gave him away.
