Example sentences of "[be] the [det] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if she 'd married Vincent Van Gogh it would have been the same story . |
| 2 | It will be the same story for many moons to come . |
| 3 | Two months ago six million people faced hosepipe bans — it could be the same story next year . |
| 4 | Tersteeg had finally told him venomously : ‘ You failed before and you 'll fail again — it 'll be the same story all over again . ’ |
| 5 | It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition . |
| 6 | When they read to us they do n't skip bits , or mind if it is the same story over again . |
| 7 | It is the same story again . |
| 8 | It is the same story with company shares ( or equities as they are called ) . |
| 9 | At Downe Hospital , it is the same story . |
| 10 | It 's the same story with all the children . |
| 11 | It 's the same story — everyone falls back on it . |
| 12 | But it 's the same story . |
| 13 | And it 's the same story in many other rivers throughout the Amazon basin . |
| 14 | It 's the same story up the road in Blaisdon … a village that for decades has been famed for its plums . |
| 15 | It 's the same story in the Anglian region . |
| 16 | It was the same story which brought about the downfall of another huge yard — Tyne — in October 1989 . |
| 17 | But to the north , where the main Himalayan chain should have loomed , the curtain never parted , and it was the same story in the morning . |
| 18 | It was the same story in the Congo and again in Zaire . |
| 19 | Noel Koch of the Defence Department came across North one day in the corridor , frazzled ; it was the same story . |
| 20 | It was the same story over again , brother against brother , neighbour against neighbour ; and as before Rodrigo was caught in the middle . |
| 21 | It was the same story all over Bomber Command . |
| 22 | By and large , it was the same story at many of the smaller training centres . |
| 23 | It was the same story with the first three but the fourth told me that I would be certain to get a coffin from a firm of suppliers in Birkenhead and was kind enough to give me their telephone number . |
| 24 | All over Britain it was the same story — with shops re-stocking their shelves as the rush to read our stunning scoop continued . |
| 25 | It was the same story in Germany and Holland where our issue also made the headlines . |
| 26 | It was the same story every time : nothing at all until at last the significance of the date went home — ‘ But that was the day it was snowing , do n't you remember ? ’ |
| 27 | It was the same story on the 30th and frustration mounted amongst the crews , by the end of June Ramsay had flown 18 operations and had become well established on the Squadron as one of the most accurate navigators . |
| 28 | It was the same story as Archer had told but the sinister technique had varied . |
| 29 | Wherever she went it was the same story . |
| 30 | ‘ It was the same story , glimpses , nothing else . ’ |