Sentence examples for make pretences from inspiring English sources

And he didn't make pretences about the task in hand.

I make no pretence about that.

I make no pretence about the stuff we used to do".

Van Marwijk's opposite number did not make a pretence of modesty.

With no need to even make a pretence of cleaning up after themselves.

I make this pretence to myself – as well as to others.

They make no pretence to be interrupting drug trafficking itself but they do claim to have restored a degree of tranquillity to daily life.

These make no pretence to making banking safer, but reflect politicians' anger at banks and suspicions of those who run them.Britain, for long the most enthusiastic champion of financial deregulation, is going further still, pondering whether banks' retail arms should be so tightly regulated that they become little more than public utilities.

Shia Muslims in Bahrain have often misused the word "genocide" to describe their own democratic struggle – as if the government is engaging in mass slaughter, which is not true – but the authorities, in whose custody at least four prisoners have died since February, all apparently after being tortured, make no pretence at being a democracy.

A couple of years back, when TV programmers first decided people with obsessive compulsive disorders were going to be the new big thing in voyeuristic reality shows, they did make some pretence of acknowledging their subjects were suffering from a recognised mental illness by including the odd shrink as a talking head.

During his Desert Island Discs interview, Morgan added: "I'm quite happy to be parked in the corner of tabloid beast and to have to sit here defending all these things I used to get up to, and I make no pretence about the stuff we used to do.