Sentence examples for were to pretend from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it would be better, less embarrassing for him, if I were to pretend that he wasn't crying — to ignore him, basically.

It is as if another of his rivals for worst President, George Bush, were to pretend the Iraq war was a little local difficulty.

Because if it isn't, then I would be letting George and his memory down if I were to pretend that it was.

It would be odd indeed if anyone were to pretend the Labour party doesn't owe more to Methodism (or Catholic social teaching or the Anglican social tradition represented by RH Tawney) than it does to Marx, or Anthony Giddens for that matter.

(Schumpeter's favourite trick is to pretend to be a deranged Chinese-speaker).

The plan is to pretend the letter never existed.

So the first step is to pretend you're going to lunch.

Another cool idea is to pretend you are on a cleaning game show.

We're going to pretend it's Stockton College".

John Kerry is having to pretend to be us".

It would be stupid to pretend to be a rhino.