Sentence examples for pretended to commit from inspiring English sources

Jack's mother pretended to commit suicide.

He ruled, therefore, that there was evidence to go to jury that pretending to commit an act of buggery might be an act of gross indecency.

(It's essentially a hip-hop musical starring Jay-Z, and it proves that hearing him rap about murder is much more fun than watching him pretend to commit it).

Unsettling events occur poolside in films as diverse as "Harold and Maude" (Bud Cort gets a rise out of the grown-ups by pretending to commit suicide in a pool); "Magnum Force" (Clint Eastwood pursues the bad guy responsible for a massacre at a pool party); "A.I".

Defining the difference between simulated buggery, of the kind seen on stage at the National Theatre, which staged Romans in Britain in December 1980, and an act of gross indecency in real life, he said: "Pretending to commit an act of buggery is not an act of gross indecency merely because buggery itself is an act of gross indecency.

I invite some of the neighborhood guys and tell them to bring a date and a weapon and we can get loaded and pretend to commit felonies.

There is no reason whatsoever to commit crimes (or pretend to commit them in public) to act like the Joker.

When he appears to be following your movements, pretend to commit to one direction.

It has additional plaintiffs and also accuses Prudential of committing fraud by pretending to put the money of military families into personal interest-bearing accounts, called Alliance Accounts.

On Tuesday, Altman described some of the covert work of the spy who had transformed his appearance and pretended to be a committed environmental activist using the alias Mark Stone.

More likely is that they have little choice but to pretend to being commited.