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Example Sentences

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That race and two others were on grass; Baffert said he did that because he wanted to get the colt in some races.

From Los Angeles Times

"What Tierney wanted to do was an incredibly faithful adaptation of this novel, wildly faithful - faithful to a degree I don't think anybody ever imagined," he says.

From BBC

"They both knew that they wanted to be World Cup champions. They both wanted to win as many races as they possibly could, and they wrote it down very young."

From Barron's

This perhaps wasn’t the start to his Olympic career that he wanted.

From Los Angeles Times

He hired her and, she says, wanted a commissioner with a background in online safety, but also experience in the tech sector itself.

From BBC