1 You pretended that you had seen a piece of paper which proved them innocent.
2 He is not pretending, thought Winston, he is not a hypocrite, he believes every word he says.
3 She would be hanging about among the stalls, pretending to be in search of shoelaces or sewing-thread.
4 The strategy that all three powers are following, or pretend to themselves that they are following, is the same.
5 Then he saw the girl standing at the base of the monument, reading or pretending to read a poster which ran spirally up the column.
6 And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it.
7 They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice.
8 The tales about Goldstein and his underground army, she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the Party had invented for its own purposes and which you had to pretend to believe in.
9 In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish.
10 They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.