Sentence examples for pretends to work from inspiring English sources

Talking to the president about your energy policy and his views on the geopolitical map of the next 100 years, and hearing him say that on Saturday afternoons Michelle and the girls go and play tennis and he goes in the Oval Office and pretends to work, and he puts his feet on the desk and switches on "Homeland".

"Universal Exports" is the cover name for the company where 007 pretends to work, and the label could be applied, with no problem, to the British monarchy, and to the noisy, quirk-strewn parade — ancient but childish, upstanding but self-jibing — that Danny Boyle put on last night.

He loses his job after one upskirt incident too many and he only pretends to work the steps of recovery.

FORTY MILLION Americans pretend to work at home.

As the Cuban saying goes: "Fidel pretends to pay us and we pretend to work".

There, the joke was "we pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us".

He found a small upstairs room where he could shut the door and pretend to work.

"They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work," goes the old joke.

Many Cubans say they are hesitant to let go of a reliable system summed up by a common joke: "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us".

They had to pretend to work through problems that they already knew.

That money-grubber, just sitting there, letting his mind wander, not even pretending to work.