How To Use False pretence In A Sentence
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Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed.
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He was accused of obtaining money under false pretences.
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Who cares if consumers are lured in under false pretences and win zilch?
Times, Sunday Times
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If his case doesn't justify asylum, then there are millions of undeserving asylum seekers living here under false pretences.
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I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences.
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Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed.
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He faces 47 charges of false pretences, forgery and fraudulent conversion between 1995 and April 2001.
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She was accused of obtaining money under false pretences.
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He can even be forgiven for terming some of the ringleaders of the dissatisfaction ‘rotten tomatoes’, as it seems clear they got some staff to sign a petition under false pretences.
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This statement represents the old doctrine in regard to obtaining property by false pretences, to which I shall advert presently.
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The thieves got into the house under false pretences, by saying they had come to repair the water taps.
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Eyebrows were often raised when a player would disappear suddenly from the tour, sometimes under false pretence.
Times, Sunday Times
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This statement represents the old doctrine in regard to obtaining property by false pretences, to which I shall advert presently.
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You came here under false pretences, though I admit there were mitigating circumstances.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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In July, 1968, he appeared in court for bigamy, larceny and false pretences, with 116 offences considered, and was sentenced to two years jail, suspended for three years.
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The charges put to the accused yesterday include the falsification of accounts, acquiring money under false pretences and failing to keep records.
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I'm speaking to this wicked child, who has obtained our love and sympathy and attention on false pretences, for which she ought to be put in prison -- yes, in _prison_, for such a heartless trick on relatives who can ill afford to be so cruelly disappointed! '
The Talking Horse And Other Tales
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I have already referred to him as being almost the only "highflyer" in the prison, as being the man who once obtained 150_l. _ from a gentleman in Devonshire under false pretences.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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He was deported for entering the country under false pretences.
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This Labour stalwart is the Luftfur Rahman who was a selectorial candidate for the PPC-ship at Bethnal Green and Bow, and not the one who is Leader of the Labour Group at Tower Hamlets, or the one who recently completed the clear out of Longsight, Manchester by ousting the false pretences Lib Dem gate maker Liaqat Ali.
Trial by Jeory: Getting All Anal Over CV Massage
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It is wrong to ensure the lawsuit false pretence as the swindle crime, though it has some characters of swindle crime.
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The investigators' methods included obtaining phone records using false pretences, a process known as pretexting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cheney and his pack of merry men spent 8 years destroying the economy, invading other countries under false pretences and just plain screwing up.
Cheney named Conservative of the Year
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Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and pilfer a target person's store items.
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Furthermore, this High King who has forced Tarn into vassalage reigns under false pretences.
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