Sentence examples for pretence after from inspiring English sources

So rather than get in trouble all over again, hapless Bill has to look after his boys and pretend to be a decent bloke and single dad for the authorities' benefit – and discovers it might not be a pretence after all.

Manning had tried to keep the pretence going, saying after the 42-17 victoverover the San Francisco 49ers: "I can't believe they actually did it.

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

Let's hope that ends any pretence that shareholders look after companies.

Imagine! – and he deserves credit for keeping up the pretence so long, especially after they became the first side to win at Manchester City in the league.

There was never going to be any pretence of a contest after that and United had a second goal in six minutes.

He gets drunk, falls into the sea, hums while he plays and fails to keep up the pretence of good sportsmanship after yet another crushing defeat by a child or retired accountant.

But then when we act, after years of pretence, the action will have to be harder, bigger, more total in its impact.

Even so, isn't the real pretence the idea that anything in their after-years can live up to the glory of what athletes accomplish in their youth?

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.

Johann Hari's article "This is not what the people voted for" (14 May) omits from his indictment of New Labour failures one of the most shaming of all, namely the abandonment after 1997 of even the pretence of willingness to move towards the introduction of PR.