Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't tell Princesse Mat the whole story . |
| 2 | He initiated and led the search party which found and buried the bodies of Scott , Edward A. Wilson [ q.v. ] , and H. R. Bowers , retrieving the diaries , drawings , and letters that revealed the epic story of their fate . |
| 3 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 4 | A helmet ( the Rebel 's Cap ) hangs in the church to this day , perpetuating the lively story , which was used by Sir Walter Scott in his novel , Rokeby . |
| 5 | Tora ! which was released in 1970 and will likely remain the definitive story of the attack . |
| 6 | Al Clark read the original story about adulterous liaisons with a sinking heart . |
| 7 | David Whitaker loved the storyline , rapidly commissioned the episode-by-episode story breakdown , and as quickly commissioned the full scripts . |
| 8 | I never really got the full story . |
| 9 | So he got the whole story , and when it was spelled out , the catalogue of suspicions and circumstantial evidence did sound pretty feeble . |
| 10 | It has been claimed that Aindow allowed himself to be struck on the leg to support the false story that he had been hit by the car . |
| 11 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 12 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
| 13 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 14 | He had just heard the full story from Nigel Cramer in his office atop the Home Office building . |
| 15 | I still do n't think we 've heard the full story about that business at the off-licence . ’ |
| 16 | And if you think that 's strange behaviour for a bunch of follicle-flowing grind merchants who make a noise roughly akin to King Kong farting in a bathful of badgers , you have n't heard the full story . |
| 17 | To treat the Christian story in this way was to produce the phenomenon of Gnosticism in which a claim to disclose secret revelation is combined with a mixing of myths and rites drawn from a variety of religious traditions . |
| 18 | Omar Pound must know the full story , but rightly I think , though surely austerely , he has left it for us to piece together . |
| 19 | You do n't know the full story . ’ |
| 20 | I did not know the full story — would never know it . |
| 21 | We still do not know the full story of Brixton ; therefore , we do not know the truth . |
| 22 | But we may never know the full story of espionage and treachery among those Dreaming Spires . |
| 23 | ‘ I do not know the full story , ’ Benedicta interrupted , ‘ but there is rejoicing in Southwark at Sir Ralph 's death . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah , I do n't know the full story |
| 25 | you do n't know the full story , she might have had a bit of a |
| 26 | Above all , Celia must never know the whole story of how and why her mother died , nor that , presumably , somewhere she had a father whom , please God , she would never know . |
| 27 | Ahmed Alekseevich , when you meet this Englishman , he will not know the whole story . |
| 28 | And anyway , ’ she said heatedly , ‘ it 's obvious I do n't know the whole story . |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't know the whole story ! ’ |
| 30 | You may know the delightful story of G.K. Chesterton who was always getting lost . |