Example sentences of "story told [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would make it up as she went along — like a story told to a child at bedtime ; like a clever lie that relies as much on the truth as on deception . |
| 2 | But then life is invariably ultimately hard on someone with pretensions beyond their talents and a style best encapsulated in the story told about the boy in his Taunton constituency who asked him what the time was . |
| 3 | CD is alluding to a story told about the prince of dandies , Beau Brummel ( 1778–1840 ) , who was once asked by a lady whether he had ever tasted vegetables . |
| 4 | Or you could say that from the story told under the palm-tree or round the winter hearth there developed the novel . |
| 5 | From this the importance of Rorschach grew in the Middle Ages , a story told by the town 's many handsome old houses , with their enchantingly carved oriels . |
| 6 | 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 . |