But he had vanished so completely that it seemed like a trick.

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Grand Prairie police issued a warrant for his arrest and placed him on their Most Wanted list, but by then he had vanished.

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She said he had vanished while she waited outside a convenience store as he bought cigars, so she returned firstly to their Gambian home and then to the UK to look for him.

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When he looked back the woman had vanished.

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Any notion that Britain itself was keen to lock up the general should have vanished with the revelation that he had been visiting Britain not only to mend his bad back but also as the guest of a British arms maker, Royal Ordnance.

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"It struck me over the past days that the guards had vanished from the vicinity of the embassy, " he said.

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One clinical trial investigator mailed in "before" and "after" X rays of a patient whose tumor vanished after being treated with Iressa, exclaiming that he had never seen this before.

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He thought he had a job lined up, but then discovered that the offer had vanished in the 2008 recession.

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It had been seven months since he'd been stunned in the second round at Wimbledon and vanished from the sport.

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He had acted to defuse criticism arising from the DCF's last debacle: the case of the still vanished 5-year-old Rilya Wilson, who was missing for 15 months before her caseworkers realized it in April.

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