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Example sentences for "cannot pretend"

  • How much truth there may be in either, I cannot pretend to say.

  • Whether such be really their intention, or how far it may be politic, I cannot pretend to determine.

  • What the event will be I cannot pretend to decide.

  • Sir, In the present violent heat of the weather, and feverish state of my health, I cannot pretend to sit long at my pen, and must pray you to accept of a few short hints only.

  • Whether he thought worse of people than they deserved we cannot pretend to say.

  • How long Frank might have sat on the floor, and what direful events might have transpired, I cannot pretend to say, for just at this juncture the further door opened, and Dr.

  • What you may have been used to I cannot pretend to know; but, whatever it be, you will be kind enough to remember that here we are accustomed to the society of gentlemen, and to treat each other as such.

  • How long it will be before they succeed in eradicating these separate nationalities, I cannot pretend to say.

  • Whether it is of great importance to adhere exactly to the recipes, I cannot pretend to say; the soup was pronounced on all hands to be most excellent, and some of the knowing ones declared it was unusually good.

  • How far the numerous stories told about him were true I cannot pretend to say, but they were certainly not without foundation.

  • I cannot pretend to speak with authority, but it seems to me that there are only two methods of dealing with the situation: prompt, energetic repression, or timely, judicious concessions to popular feeling.

  • How far these reports are true I cannot pretend to say, for the presence of a stranger always acts on the company like the presence of a severe inspector.

  • I cannot pretend to have deciphered all these accurately.

  • I cannot pretend in this Guide to point out all the objects of interest in Modern Brussels, within this great ring.

  • The immense area of Brussels =outside the Outer Boulevards= I cannot pretend to deal with.

  • What were the influences which really moulded his highest conception of the future state, how much was due to a pure and vigorous spiritual intuition, how much to Platonic and Pythagorean sources, we cannot pretend to say.

  • How far it was successful we cannot pretend to say.

  • Aurelius had in this scene we cannot pretend to tell, but the ceremony could hardly have been performed without, at least, his connivance.

  • Perhaps you understand--I cannot pretend that I understand him.

  • Of course, I cannot pretend I take easily to strangers.

  • But I cannot pretend that I have not thought it rather marked.

  • Mamma was very particular whom we associated with, and so I have always been unaccustomed to strangers, and I cannot pretend I am partial to making new acquaintances.

  • Whether the marquis de Montcalm was really assiduous to have these articles punctually executed we cannot pretend to determine; but certain it is, they were perfidiously broke in almost every instance.

  • Nothing appears to me certain but that he will play a considerable part for good or for evil, but I cannot pretend to guess what it will be.

  • The death of Molesworth has made a difficulty for Palmerston; I knew so little of him that I cannot pretend to say anything about him.

  • I cannot pretend to give even an outline of all the adventures I met with while serving on board the privateer.

  • I cannot pretend to say that these were the exact words used by the chief, but they had a similar signification.

  • I cannot pretend to say that all Dutch merchants are like him, for if so, they must be a very funny set of people.

  • Whether there be truth in this story, I cannot pretend to determine; and yet I see no reason to doubt the word of a man of respectability, who could have no motive whatever for deceiving us.

  • DEAR SIR,--The city of Lyons has been so often and so circumstantially described, that I cannot pretend to say any thing new on the subject.

  • The Italians call it murena; but whether it is the fish which had the same name among the antient Romans, I cannot pretend to determine.

  • Where the surplus have lain, and rotted, I cannot pretend to conjecture: but I know it to be a VERY RARE production!

  • I cannot pretend to say at what period even the oldest part of the Castle of Montmorenci was built: but I saw nothing that seemed to be more ancient than the latter end of the fifteenth century.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot bear; cannot bring; cannot call; cannot conceive; cannot doubt; cannot escape; cannot even; cannot expect; cannot fail; cannot find; cannot forbear; cannot give; cannot here; cannot hope; cannot love; cannot pass; cannot recall; cannot refuse; cannot represent; cannot stand; cannot stop; cannot take; church communion; general health; native industry; would endeavour