Example sentences of "stories had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleanor 's stories had made him jealous ; his wife 's effusions angered him . |
| 2 | The Jacob stories had their beginning in a struggle for blessing , and the power that blessing bestows . |
| 3 | Apart from The Guardian and the social work press , the content of the report was ignored — the stories had been written months ago . |
| 4 | In their original context both stories had a different significance , but it was as impossible for fourteenth century Christians to experience the Christian revelation in the same way as the first Christians as it is for us today . |
| 5 | She 'd often wondered about the Holy Ghost , and now wondered further if Mr Dickens 's stories had any connections with Him . |
| 6 | Crime fiction , too , reflected these alterations , so that crime stories had ‘ greatly increased in bloodthirstiness during the past twenty years ’ . |
| 7 | Their own stories had strangely interlocked , and sometimes she had a sense that such interlockings were part of a vaster network , that there was a pattern , if only one could discern it , a pattern that linked these semi-detached houses of Wanley with those in Leeds and Northam , a pattern that linked Liz 's vast house in Harley Street with the Garfield Centre towards which she herself now drove . |
| 8 | Their headmistress had wilfully departed from the scripture syllabus and her stories had stimulated a prurient interest in sex , thereby corrupting childhood innocence . |
| 9 | This world was more complex than his stories had ever made it . |
| 10 | AS THE deadline approached for this quarter 's issue of Wood News , there was a certain amount of nervousness at John Wood House , since only a few stories had come through from our new network of Correspondents . |
| 11 | He said an official came over to him and asked : ‘ why all those stories had been written . |
| 12 | He said an official came over to him and asked : ‘ why all those stories had been written . |