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She tried in vain to put them out of her mind.
For the next week I tried in vain to talk to her.
In vain, she had been trying to see him for two months.
I looked in vain for a way to tell you so.
Those who gave their lives for us last night did not go down in vain!
"His work over the last three years has not gone in vain."
If this is so then all will not have been in vain.
But all in vain; my mind was finally made up.
I just heard my name being taken in vain,' said he.
At all costs, he would not look to her in vain.
Then all of this would not have been in vain.
They try to talk him out of it, in vain.
In vain and often I asked him this very question.
That is why she must never be called in vain.
Still, it did not seem to have been in vain.
It means the work of the party and the people is in vain.
Whether to wait in vain or to some point, she had no idea.
We have worked hard and I would like to think that our work will not be in vain.
For a way to change the world, to have his life matter But it is all in vain.
All that effort now seems to have been in vain.
"I cannot believe that everything they did back there is in vain."
I do not want those men and women to die in vain.
In vain, we have called this to the city's attention.
My work on a report will therefore be in vain.
Four years here, she thought, and all their efforts had been in vain.