Example sentences of "to pretend [pers pn] know " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
2 | I had to pretend I knew how to mark up blocks . ’ |
3 | It was no longer necessary to pretend they knew less or more than they did . |
4 | With his junior staff loyally taking the blame and trying to pretend he knew nothing about it ( despite his signature on the 17 January presidential order ) , Reagan began to believe he had known nothing about it and it is possible that he did not know what he was signing . |
5 | Oliver likes to pretend he knows what I do , and chucks out the odd word from time to time to sound authoritative . |