I am here under false pretences, as you have suspected all along.

Seems to me that they are collecting pay from the public sector under false pretences.

I got into your office under false pretences, but there was no other way.

- Under the false pretences that they were the final 4 in the game.

And there came on her the sudden dread of false pretences.

In the old days "obtaining money by false pretences" was a crime.

He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences.

You sneak in here under false pretences to get your film!

The property, too, must have been actually obtained by the false pretence.

We can't very well hold him for obtaining money on false pretences.