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  • Then show HER looking for HIM with all those flashbacks about her life, ending the episode with her flying back home emptyhanded/hearted, and him deciding to go straight from Houston, with new hope about his life, straight to Tokyo.

    Doc Jensen geeks out on 'FlashForward': Follow the clues; crack the mystery! (maybe) | EW.com 2009

  • Make too few demands, and people feel free to seek the pastor's counsel without putting money in the collection place or to come emptyhanded to a pot luck supper, and the whole church suffers, he said.

    David Briggs: The Groupon Dilemma For Churches: Attracting Members Without Encouraging Cheapskates David Briggs 2011

  • We dress women from age ten to eighty, and we can dress anyone for any eventwe have customers coming in who need something for a night on the town, a reunion, a wedding, a weekend getaway, a movie premiere, or their childs school play; and they rarely leave emptyhanded.

    Rinnavation Lisa Rinna 2009

  • A covenant has been made with the thirteen middot—when the children of Israel recite them they will not be turned away emptyhanded b.

    Theism defended 2009

  • I thought I was doing something wrong to be coming up so emptyhanded.

    Left Hand, Meet Right Hand, BBC Edition Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • We dress women from age ten to eighty, and we can dress anyone for any eventwe have customers coming in who need something for a night on the town, a reunion, a wedding, a weekend getaway, a movie premiere, or their childs school play; and they rarely leave emptyhanded.

    Rinnavation Lisa Rinna 2009

  • Man will die walk back alone .. emptyhanded not even the shadow of his tempting treasure chest. man whose umbilical cord

    Man and his Excess Baggage « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006

  • ` ` We put a lot of effort into it and you come out emptyhanded, no points like that, but at least we showed a lot of character. ''

    USATODAY.com - Hockey - Buffalo vs. Montreal 2006

  • Kendall, competing in her fourth Olympics, never has gone home emptyhanded she won gold in the event's 1992 debut, silver in 1996 and bronze in Sydney.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • “Now, I hate to see any beautiful women leave here emptyhanded,” Magda said, scouring the racks.

    To Catch a Prince Gillian McKnight 2005

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