false pretence in a sentence

Examples

1. In 1913, Newton was struck off indefinitely and sentenced to three years'imprisonment for obtaining money by false pretences.
2. Strange tracks an employee of Foreman's to a gun store and observes him buying a weapon under false pretences.
3. Blood was captured in Philadelphia and turned over to the Massachusetts State Police on a charge of defrauding by false pretences.
4. He was arrested for obtaining money by false pretences and ( because he was a juvenile ) sent to a reformatory.
5. "' False pretences "'as a concept in the criminal law is no longer used in English law.
6. Learchus became King under the false pretence, he was protecting Battus III, although by then Battus was a young man.
7. Several speakers were invited to share a platform with Choudary, but some later claimed that they had been invited under false pretences.
8. Following the match, Bach, a commercial traveller from Birmingham, was arrested on a charge of obtaining ?0 by false pretences.
9. This offence replaced the offence of obtaining by false pretences, contrary to section 32 ( 1 ) of the Larceny Act 1916.
10. In essence, she argued that war is not a successful problem solving mechanism and justifications for war are based on false pretences.