Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] any sign " in BNC.
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1 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
2 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
3 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
4 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
5 | Even if he 'd shown any signs at all of wanting to have her around — which he had n't — she 'd be nothing more than a burden . |
6 | Well , that just proved what a lot of mumbo-jumbo it all was , because the last thing that had happened had been that Luke infuriating Calder had exhibited any signs of being attracted to her … and vice versa ! |
7 | She soon fell victim , and ceased to show any signs of life . |
8 | The paltry crowd of 1,223 had very little to cheer as Quakers failed to show any sign of breaking down the visitors . |
9 | Of the three patients that died , the cause of death was not mentioned in one case , a second patient died of oesophageal recurrence , the third succumbed to systemic lymphoma five years after irradiation of a single oesophageal manifestation ; local treatment had been completely successful , as indicated at necropsy , which failed to reveal any signs of malignancy in the oesophagus . |
10 | An additional internal Chow test conducted by splitting the sample at 1982 Q4 ( coinciding with the end of monetary base control in the US ) and running separate regressions over the two halves of the sample failed to reveal any sign of a structural break . |
11 | I wanted to detect any signs of discomfort . |