Sentence examples for needs to pretend from inspiring English sources

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"Your body needs to pretend that you are active in a meeting, like you are concentrating," Steger says.

That said, it is never explained why she needs to pretend to be Stacy, or why Stacy doesn't tell Kevin about it.

No one listens to Britain any more, of course, but the Foreign Office needs to pretend that they do – so rejecting our regional agreement on human rights might have been a tad embarrassing for our itinerant moral philosopher on his ethical travels.

On this view, the Bank needs to pretend to water the economy, even if there's less and less chance of it doing any good.

Nobody needs to pretend they're part of Cirque du Soleil, for God's sake.

[As an aside, it is interesting that even such an experienced stalwart as RR has in his mind that everyone needs to pretend that government (a tool for people acting together as a group) does not play a critical role in a mixed economy. Why not turn around "big government" to "here are the big things government does... ..?].

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You'll also need to pretend to be 15.

You don't need to pretend to be perfect".

We don't need to pretend any longer.

Bills 34, Jaguars 18 No need to pretend to have watched this game.

It didn't need to pretend to be the post office or a butler.

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