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(31) He would badger him about anything, often hitting him on the least pretext.

(32) Finally, on a pretext of doing a little musicological research, he went down and wandered around.

(33) Even one counterexample would give us a pretext to bring the rogue in for questioning.

(34) His rental car was stopped by police on the pretext that it had a broken tail light.

(35) He can't recall the man's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house.

(36) The Victorians invented Christmas, according to the exhibition, as a pretext for selling toys.

(37) Ivor and Pauline were lured back to Stroud's bungalow at Staunton,(http://sentencedict.com/pretext.html) on the pretext of discussing the cash settlement.

(38) The boy was simply a beggar: his bundle of newspapers was a pretext, and we called him the Newspaper Boy.

(39) Minor offences were sometimes used as a pretext for an arrest.

(40) He would have Christmas Day off and he would surely call at the vicarage on some pretext or other.

(41) However, this can not be used as a pretext to justify inertia.

(42) People were moving more slowly and nonchalantly, without the pretext of a destination or purpose.

(43) She was recently hauled off a train by the police on some bureaucratic pretext and escorted under protest to the station.

(44) He could of course simply walk out on some pretext - visiting a friend.

(45) Mr. Baines was glad to have a pretext for leaving the party early.

(46) I lingered, on the pretext of finishing half a glass of champagne.

(47) The gang enters people's houses under the pretext of making repairs, and then steals everything of value.

(48) Possibly, as war drew closer, the police wanted some pretext to keep Joyce on their books.

(49) Reformist leaders have told the public to remain calm to deprive hardliners in the security forces of any pretext for violent action.

(50) His sore leg was a pretext. He just wanted a day off work.

(51) The incident also appeared to provide a pretext for the government to institute harsher measures against the student demonstrators.

(52) Jonathan Probyn called his wife under the pretext of having a problem with one of their children.

(53) Armed clashes between farmers and squatters that led to deaths could provide the pretext.

(54) The accusations about the internment camps look to many analysts like a possible pretext for war.

(55) But this is exactly what I was trying to tell them every single day on almost every little pretext that I had.

(56) In creative groups, failure is regarded as a learning experience, not a pretext for punishment.

(57) It was impossible to find any pretext for remaining in her company.

(58) Here in the islands they were arranged on the slightest pretext of celebration.

(59) The crisis became a pretext for advocating cuts in public spending of every kind.

(60) What bothers us more is the seeming predisposition of the federal courts to strike down term-limit laws on just about any pretext.