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Example Sentences

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Under growing pressure, the candidates for governor went on the offensive at the party gathering.

From Los Angeles Times

Declan Rice was making all these runs too, bursting forward to try to make amends for his mistake for Tottenham's equaliser, so there was all sorts going on.

From BBC

Gore went on to earn fewer than half of Jackson’s primary votes, placing third behind that preacher and eventual frontrunner Michael Dukakis.

From Salon

The remains of Italy's patron saint, St Francis of Assisi, have gone on public display to mark 800 years since his death.

From BBC

The band will play the 02 Ritz in Manchester on Friday, and a queue of fans stretched down Whitworth Street to the Palace Theatre when the tickets went on sale at 12:00 GMT.

From BBC