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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But her protestations had been unfulfilled; she had not forgotten.
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By now the man was surrounded, and his protestations happily ignored.
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In spite of the couple's protestations, he forbade Marion to meet Travis again and firmly escorted his tearful daughter home.
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In their minds it had been prefaced with romantic dialogue and protestations of love.
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It was certainly an occasion that made Le Kha Phieu's earlier protestations of continuing socialist purity hard to believe.
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Meanwhile, President Monroe decided that the Creeks were right in their protestations that the Seminoles were a separate tribe.
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One of the most disturbing features of the case was how patients' protestations of abuse were ignored.
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The call to community is not a hollow protestation of universal brotherhood.