Sentence examples for we would pretend from inspiring English sources

For today, though, we would pretend that we were flush, that the lean times hadn't started yet and that they would last just 40 days.

"We made a point of always saying to Sam not that we were building a magic cabinet, but that we would pretend with him," Lucie tells me.

One of those people was Greg Baker, the paper's music critic, and he and I cooked up an idea: we would pretend that we had received the new record and review it.

"The writers would present us with the script and we would pretend to fall about laughing, and then when they were gone we would pull the script to shreds.

"Awww," my 5-year-old daughter would say, catching sight of a tom on our way to the playground, "isn't he cute?" We would pretend we lived in some distant past, that we were the first humans to set foot on this land.

We would pretend that we were seeking shelter from the storm under blankets.

He said he'd sit on his grandfather's shoulders and "we'd pretend like they could see us as we were waving at folks coming home".

We'd pretend we were mermaids in a fairy dance.

We'd pretend to be asleep, but — You ever heard anyone startin' to learn the fiddle?

She'd pour out the tea and say 'you know the Jews did so and so' and we'd pretend to agree with her".

Tax bills have started turning up in summer, so funds that we'd pretend were ours to fritter away have been claimed earlier than before.