Example sentences of "stories told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad Uzzell appears in many guises in Thomas 's stories , and travel books ; parts of him — and stories told by him — are an important strand in some of the wayfaring characters found in the pre-enlistment poems . |
| 2 | Bondage — The stories told to cab driver David Hines by the prostitutes he met while driving around Kings Cross formed the basis of this one woman monologue detailing the grim life of a London prostitute . |
| 3 | But the stories told by these twenty prisoners of the camp from which they had come , stirred the most lethargic and bore-minded five year man . |
| 4 | FROM memories of a journey through Alresford in the 1920s to a paper on Rasputin , the stories told by members at Alresford Historical and Literary Society 's annual manuscript evening held the large audience 's attention with their detail and variety . |
| 5 | Stories told in pictures — less copy than the Sunday supplements , more slanted to letting the photographs tell the story . |
| 6 | Even today , children retain vivid impressions from the stories told to them by their mothers and grandmothers about their own childhoods ‘ long ago ’ . |
| 7 | That is just one of the horror stories told by Jonathan Margolis and Gabrielle Morris in their new book THE COMMUTER 'S TALE ( Chapmans , £3.99 ) . |
| 8 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 9 | In the stories told above , it is obvious that the richness of aspectual information comes from their visual — spatial characteristics and that there is an appeal to the visual imagery of the receiver in telling the stories . |
| 10 | His is one of many stories told in this absorbing book . |
| 11 | ‘ In some gaols you see ’ , wrote Howard , ‘ boys of twelve or fourteen eagerly listening to the stories told by practised and experienced criminals , of their adventures , successes , stratagems and escapes . ’ |
| 12 | The stories told by respondents are used to justify a particular position , as well as to criticize the characters in the stories . |
| 13 | To perfect the accent you could obtain one of many BBC records of stories told in various accents . |
| 14 | No longer hiding behind the screen memories , the stories told to us by others , we began to unpick our social and psychic formations , within the support and containment , permission-giving and encouragement to take risks which we offered to each other . |
| 15 | As an author , the name of Ernest Bramah first came to public notice with The Wallet of Kai Lung ( 1900 ) , the first of his collection of stories told by a wandering Chinaman in the manner of the Arabian Nights ' tales and in an elaborate Mandarin style ostensibly of Chinese translated into flowery English language . |
| 16 | Reception children are used to stories told in the form of consecutive images through comic strips ; they 're also familiar with " freeze frame " on video . |
| 17 | That is what this new network is about — live events , expert commentary , a wider range of stories told — and in more depth . |
| 18 | Although the driver ant colony is an " animal " weighing in excess of 20 kg and possessing on the order of 20 million mouths and stings and is surely the most formidable creation of the insect world , it still does not match up to the lurid stories told about it . |