false pretences

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

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

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

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

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

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

You've brought your friends out here under false pretences.

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

She was getting a prize for a cattle picture, by false pretences.

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

I had come under false pretences and I was able to take care of myself.

I felt as if I was there under false pretences.

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

They were typically brought in under false pretences as asylum-seekers.

"One could say I had come under false pretences.

'They entered our society under false pretences and then kidnapped us by force.

He was only interested in himself and his business, and had married her under false pretences.

After a long-term stay abroad, he had made investments in his home country, and these were taken away from him under false pretences.

"Then you wouldn't have to go round under false pretences, would you?"

'But if what you say is true, then at the very least she was guilty of accepting money under false pretences.

Maybe the internet will finally make these megalomanics think twice about going to war under false pretences.

Could he get done for procuring sexual favours under false pretences?

"I don't want to feel that I am here under false pretences.

I felt myself dependent upon her for house room and food and social support, as it were under false pretences.

But I have an uncomfortable feeling that my freedom has been obtained under false pretences!"