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Example Sentences

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"You repeatedly asked clients to advance you further funds even though little or no progress was being made."

From BBC

However, it would be asking a lot to put the 18-year-old England youth international into the cauldron of a Premier League game from the start.

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When he was asked to do an emergency stop, the examiner fell off the box he was sitting on and cut his leg.

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Ms Foreman had been asking people along the route what constitutes a good life, and those questions appear to form the basis of the regime's accusations against the couple.

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"The United States is starting from scratch, and with the new registration procedure, some NGOs will leave," said a European diplomatic source in the region, asking not to be named.

From Barron's