Sentence examples for pretended to need from inspiring English sources

In one, The Everyday Kindness Awards, actors in public places pretended to need help.

They went to an orphanage, pretended to need a girl apprentice, picked out the prettiest and made off with her.

But I do think it would be interesting if someone did a study on more direct helping behavior, like if a confederate pretended to need assistance.

In one meeting, he pretended to need to relieve himself of his last Diet Coke so he could get out into the corridor to retch.

He points to a series of experiments at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, when a group of 15-month-olds were placed in a room where an adult pretended to need help.

One afternoon, I pretended to need to get some money from home.

Never turning his head". "I was brought up not to stare at people pretending to need help," Mr. Keillor says.

Molly's parents are convinced, they say, that someone lured her into trouble by pretending to need her help.

We all rely on those around us not to pick our pockets, read our mail or pretend to need our help getting gold out of a Kenyan bank.

The Times understands that people pretending to need "crisis pregnancy" advice have been using an HSE helpline to collect the names of GPs who will provide termination services.

Hannah is getting paid a lot to ask Patti LuPone about medication she pretends to need, and she's thriving in her copywriting gig (must be the influence of her boss Jenna Lyons).