Johnny was an outsider at this years karate tournament, but he still managed to win second place out of sheer determination.

But it is not feigned on a tabula rasa, as if at random: rather, the declaration of immediate intention appears to be formed in the way a decision is formed, constrained by the (pretended) "fact” that there is the sound of footsteps from the basement, the (unpretended) fact that such a sound would now be unlikely if therre weren't an intruder in the basement, the (unpretended) awfulness of there being an intruder in the basement, and so forth.

I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.

Special-casing the 100 most common words in English might speed things up.