Example sentences of "story [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes like this . |
| 2 | THE STORY GOES LIKE this : a young man of 31 called Gary Humphreys from came down to London on June 1 , last year . |
| 3 | If you have n't then the story goes like this … . |
| 4 | When those hopes are dashed so soon , not only by a cruel foreign king , but by God 's own people , then the story turns to bleak tragedy , and becomes unbearable . |
| 5 | ‘ Another story touching on wet days : poor old Mrs Suggett told me it . |
| 6 | The story starts with various accounts of what journalists have dubbed ‘ Verbivore ’ , an unexplained phenomenon in which the modulations of electromagnetic waves are being mysteriously ‘ flattened ’ by some unknown agent . |
| 7 | The story starts in 1985 , when Britain put an arms embargo on Saddam 's military state . |
| 8 | An annotated anthology of children 's fiction , poetry and story grouped under appropriate headings . |
| 9 | The theory of multiple authorship is more usual in explaining repetitions such as the Creation story appearing in two different ( and slightly contradictory ) accounts . |
| 10 | ‘ THE end of flavoured crisps ! ’ — This was one of the headlines to a story appearing in most tabloid newspapers in May . |
| 11 | That was to stop the story appearing in any publication , or on radio or on television . |
| 12 | Other equally influential modern forms of historiography have tended to develop still further this European ethnocentrism , with other societies viewed either as the passive victims of the European search for markets ( e.g. Wallerstein 1979 ) , so that the rest of the world is seen as peripheral to a West-European core , or else as active players in what is still , however , a story dominated by European desires ( e.g. Wolf 1982 ) . |
| 13 | Iris Murdoch has spoken of novels as tending to be either crystalline or journalistic ; and the journalistic , which she practises , sounds like a free-wheeling and ever-hospitable realism : ‘ a large , shapeless , quasi-documentary object … telling with pale conventional characters some straightforward story enlivened with empirical facts . ’ |
| 14 | Though your story told of some doubt about their future together , the happy ending was written in their eyes . |
| 15 | The second small raid of significance to the commando story came on 3–4 October 1942 , when a few of the Small Scale Raiding Force and some men of 12 Commando landed on Sark in the Channel Islands . |
| 16 | The importance of sugar production can be judged from a story dating from 1516 when Simon Gonçalves de Câmara , the Governor of the island , whose son had been made a bishop , sent a present to the Pope of a model of the papal palace with figures representing the whole Court and the Cardinals — all made in sugar . |
| 17 | ‘ An amazing story told with great skill and restraint . ’ |
| 18 | The visit to Osterlind 's neighbour Renoir is another story told with many variations . |
| 19 | The story told by German propaganda , however , betrayed nothing of the mounting hopelessness of the 6th Army 's position . |
| 20 | The development of COPPs forms part of the broader story told in later chapters , in which these teams ' contribution to other major landings is shown . |
| 21 | The video medium was chosen because a story told in dramatic form can engage the audience emotionally and convey knowledge , ideas , and strategies . |
| 22 | Listen to the same story told in different versions or by different people . |
| 23 | So bear that in mind , even the beginning of this story look at that first paragraph it 's in a darker type it 'll make me filthy , a darker and a larger size . |
| 24 | Having come such a long way it is a pity that the story ends in 1900 , without discussing the alleged takeover of chemistry by modern physics . |
| 25 | One good story leads to another . |
| 26 | It 's a story mirrored in thousands of homes throughout the region and highlighted by the Labour Party 's Home Affairs Team . |
| 27 | The sorry story began on 18th March 1612 , when a teenage beggar girl , Alizon Device , flew into a rage when a pedlar refused to give her some pins . |
| 28 | The story began in 1977 , when an application was made by the brewery owning The Globe Inn , to demolish the derelict Pond View Cottages attached to the pub , to provide a car park . |
| 29 | Was ever a love story born like this ? |
| 30 | Sydney Morning Herald sportswriter Greg Growden 's task was not easy , for not only was Fleetwood-Smith 's life story shrouded in all kinds of mysteries — from his name and birth-date ( 1908 , not 1910 ) at one end to burial details at the other — but there was a general reluctance among acquaintances to resurrect the past , for this ex-Test cricketer was , like many a scoundrel , loved by most who knew him . |