Example sentences of "stories [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the rancour in these stories frightened her . |
| 2 | She constructs out of bits of stories heard on the radio elaborate dramatic scenarios which parody genres such as the thriller , the spy novel , and the popular romance . |
| 3 | There was also some excitement on the oil pitch , with a number of old stories given another whirl . |
| 4 | They are stories situated in different countries — Villette is set in France , and was written in the 19th century , while ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is set in America , and was written in this century . |
| 5 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 6 | Raymond Allen again wrote the scripts , this time from stories originated by Crawford , who was anxious to show Frank to be more mature — well , slightly . |
| 7 | Allied to Wordsworth 's campaign for the free child was his campaign against ‘ edifying children 's literature ’ ; instead of , for example , Harriet Martineau 's stories designed to illustrate economic principles , he asserted the child 's right to works of imagination and fairy-tales . |
| 8 | The search for soccer stories occupied a new breed of journalist — men like Alan Hoby , the self-styled ‘ Man Who Knows ’ , or the ‘ Man Who Knows F — All ’ as he was known to some of his readers . |
| 9 | But his personal experience of sea and ships is more directly reflected in a group of documentary adventure stories written with that special educational purpose that characterises most fiction for the young . |
| 10 | These are stories written well within calculated limits and those limits include a certain simplistic idea of heroism , unaffected either by irony or by a variation of mood , an idea very different from the intensely human variables in the adult novels by Conrad and Masefield which I have already discussed . |
| 11 | It is clear from reports of children 's progress that at present there is , for many , no easy progression from the simpler language and narrative line of stories written for inexperienced readers . |
| 12 | The stories written by Dan Kavanagh about a London private investigator , Duffy , are just one example to prove that the return journey has been successfully accomplished . |
| 13 | It is largely derivative , but it contains some stories written from his own experience and that of his personal acquaintances , including an account of his family and its devotion to St Stephen 's church , Launceston . |
| 14 | To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence ! |
| 15 | The terrible stories revealed in its pages , the evidence of foul deeds which is presented , can not just be put aside or ignored . ’ |
| 16 | As a result journalists in Nigeria either depend on press releases , speeches , statements and hand-outs or go on hearsay , rumour and stories fed to them by politicians . |
| 17 | As a result 80% of its stories incorporated actuality , but the average length of these items was only three minutes , two-thirds of which was actuality . |
| 18 | Irish Short Stories selected by David Marcus ( Sceptre , £6.99 ) — A collection rich as Guinness and vastly varied in mood and style — from sparkling blarney to dark epic . |
| 19 | Many of the stories selected for short story are from published collections established authors some are commissioned specifically for the slot . |
| 20 | Simple , amusing stories presented in various styles including cartoons , which are known and loved by all children . |
| 21 | Simple , amusing stories presented in various styles including cartoons |
| 22 | The insensitive reviewer had invented and made use of the horrible word ‘ Bowenoid ’ for the stories collected in The Blush — he found them penetrating and subtle but could not forgive Elizabeth for her good fortune in being able to please the simple as well as the highbrow reader . |
| 23 | Tales and stories retold by Cock and Bull customers were more unbelievable than any other , hence , a ‘ cock and bull story ’ is generally beyond belief . |
| 24 | Yeah , erm , I mean , I think , what you 've , what you 've actually done is identified quite a lot more areas than they , they had four , which which they did in in some detail , and they got the stories classified , erm , what you 've actually thought of , is is far more areas , which I think 's good , erm , and maybe other areas to consider as well . |
| 25 | Dad Uzzell appears in many guises in Thomas 's stories , and travel books ; parts of him — and stories told by him — are an important strand in some of the wayfaring characters found in the pre-enlistment poems . |
| 26 | Bondage — The stories told to cab driver David Hines by the prostitutes he met while driving around Kings Cross formed the basis of this one woman monologue detailing the grim life of a London prostitute . |
| 27 | But the stories told by these twenty prisoners of the camp from which they had come , stirred the most lethargic and bore-minded five year man . |
| 28 | FROM memories of a journey through Alresford in the 1920s to a paper on Rasputin , the stories told by members at Alresford Historical and Literary Society 's annual manuscript evening held the large audience 's attention with their detail and variety . |
| 29 | Stories told in pictures — less copy than the Sunday supplements , more slanted to letting the photographs tell the story . |
| 30 | Even today , children retain vivid impressions from the stories told to them by their mothers and grandmothers about their own childhoods ‘ long ago ’ . |