1.   They began to see that devoting time and energy to this endeavor bore fruit.

2.   ...a small apricot tree which bore luscious fruit.

3.   A phone call to Maria bore no fruit.

4.   And that bore fruit last year when a federal judge, confronted with irrefutable evidence that the prosecution had concealed exculpatory evidence, threw out the conviction.

5.   As is often the case in this town, this set of reforms bore fruit from the seeds of prior good works.

6.   A few plants bore delicious fruits.

7.   But it is in the solitary and unrewarding nature of Beta testing that he does not know if his labor bore fruit.

8.   But it bore fruit four years later.

9.   But the C. elegans project bore fruit in many other ways.

10.   But the Star Ruby tree proved to be unusually sensitive to damage from herbicides, and it bore fruit with disconcerting irregularity.