How can that happen if I simply pretend it doesn't exist!

In a way, you simply pretended you were not there at all.

But simply pretending those resources were never discovered is no development strategy.

They simply pretend to all concerned that the baby is 100 percent genetically theirs.

We will simply pretend that three years have not existed.

Maybe it was better if she simply pretended not to hear her.

This is too important to simply pretend it hasn't happened!

She would simply pretend that nothing had happened, and see how it played.

She would have simply pretended not to notice that Martha was gone for three days.

People simply pretended to believe them because that was safer.