"pretend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

pretend verbo

pretend + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 11
pretend interest • pretend ignorance • pretend surprise • pretend indifference • pretend innocence • ...
verbo + pretend
Kolokacji: 9
try to pretend • stop pretending • like to pretend • want to pretend • go to pretend • ...
(2) like, want, bother
Kolokacji: 3
1. like to pretend = lubić udać like to pretend
2. want to pretend = chciej udać want to pretend
3. bother pretending = martw udawanie bother pretending
  • Needless to say, the bulk of the company chose this route after a token run at the board, and many didn't even bother pretending to try.
  • Don't bother pretending with me.
  • To me, that decision was, in essence, corporate America saying, "We're not going to bother pretending any more.
  • One of them, in too much powder and paint and not enough clothes, sidled up to Lurcanio, who didn't bother pretending he didn't notice her.
  • Players' agents do not bother pretending, Towers said.
  • "Maybe you two can stop congratulating each other and explain why this guy would bother pretending he was nuts if he was going to kill me anyway."
  • I've pulled out my wallet, pretending to drop a dollar into his empty coffee can, but then realize: Why bother pretending?
  • Lucullus didn't bother pretending he hadn't had anything to do with the white man with the mahogany eyes of a hunting hound.
  • "You needn't bother pretending," she stormed.
  • Now, though, the President did not bother pretending that he still had the support of his people.
pretend + preposición
Kolokacji: 5
pretend to • pretend for • pretend in • pretend with • pretend at
pretend + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 5
merely pretend • simply pretend • hardly pretend • politely pretend • initially pretend

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