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 .
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