Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 2 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 3 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story . |
| 5 | Over supper you shall tell me the whole story , and we shall see what must be done now , to please her . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I think you 'd better tell me the whole story , Charles . ’ |
| 7 | I guessed where she had been , but I made her tell me the whole story . |
| 8 | ‘ Why do n't you just sit down and tell me the whole story from the beginning . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me the true story then , and stop being so horrid . ’ |
| 10 | A night spent gummed to the plane 's polyester would give me the full story either way . |
| 11 | Do not reveal your hand by telling them the complete story , but never lie ; if you make a commitment stick to it ; be tough , abrasive and if necessary cunning but always trustworthy . |
| 12 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 13 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
| 14 | One feature maybe one or two benefits and you do n't have to tell them the whole story . |
| 15 | The subject had been explored in The Trumpet-Major and stories such as ‘ The melancholy hussar of the German legion ’ but it now began to take shape as a verse drama of epic proportions in which the historical story of Napoleon 's rise and fall was set against a reflective commentary on man 's ‘ place in the universe ’ . |
| 16 | I well I could tell you the inside story of that but I 'm not going to but I will tell the outside , the public story . |
| 17 | Aye you see I can not tell you the right story , but when Mary Queen of Scots |
| 18 | Well you can be assured that we have a very close relationship with Microsoft and Microsoft will er tell you the same story . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't told you the whole story ! |
| 20 | But I 'll tell you the whole story of his life , as much as I know , that is , and then you can judge for yourself . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I think I 'd better tell you the whole story right from the beginning . ’ |
| 22 | Erm , another reason why I ca n't give you the whole story of course is because then there 'd be no reason to take this baby rather than this baby at the hospital , you know , so their histories are exactly identical , I E nil , erm , nothing individuates them on that account . |
| 23 | ‘ So , he waited till you were here before telling you the whole story . ’ |
| 24 | Well it was , what happened right , I 'll tell you the whole story from the very beginning . |
| 25 | I 'd really like to erm tell you the brief story of the events which lead on from Good Friday to Pentecost Day . |
| 26 | The guitars were both made by Matthew at Chandler Guitars in London , amid some secrecy , and hopefully we will be bringing you the full story of their genesis soon . |
| 27 | Telling you the full story would only be telling you half . |
| 28 | But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story . |
| 29 | It 's just that we 've received soooooo many queries asking ‘ when ’ , ‘ who ’ and ‘ … how much ’ that we 've decided to give you the full story here ( maybe NOW you 'll stop inundating us with begging letters ! ) |
| 30 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |