Example sentences of "the [det] story [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand she told John the same story before she promised to marry him , then they agreed it should never be mentioned again . |
| 2 | It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition . |
| 3 | ‘ The situation could arise whereby we all own different bits of the same story but we will only know that when we go to one of the television networks with a proposal . ’ |
| 4 | ( Luke : Once again Luke has the same story but with significant differences : |
| 5 | It was n't the same story but it was a story about seals . |
| 6 | It was always the same story so I said ter meself , ‘ Billy , ’ I said , ‘ yer wastin' yer time even bovverin' ter fink about it . |
| 7 | It 's always the same story when yer go fer a job . |
| 8 | Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ . |
| 9 | Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail . |
| 10 | ( It is all very much the same story as D. H. Lawrence 's persecution in Cornwall during the First World War . ) |
| 11 | Further down the street , the local baker would be telling his hapless visitors much the same story as their butcher : the cost of wheat was out of all control , and he was as sorry as they were that his prices were up , while their wages had held steady . |
| 12 | A representative from Channel 7 visited this office in September with the same story as your article described , following a very aggressive sales pitch during a telephone call the previous week from the UK . |
| 13 | It was the same story as Archer had told but the sinister technique had varied . |
| 14 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 15 | tell the same story as : [ 15 ] Lok saw the man draw the bow and release it . |
| 16 | Marek went on to tell the same story as Tait had narrated to Blanche the day before in the circling car — of a brave man who was betrayed , tortured , castrated and shot . |
| 17 | Tell the same story as before . |
| 18 | Erm , if er , if they had been , erm , all along they would be telling the same story as , if they really could do their in intellectualizing properly |
| 19 | Therefore , he must stick to the same story and tell the same lie as when he had applied for his British passport . |