Example sentences of "[vb past] the whole story " in BNC.

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1 So he got the whole story , and when it was spelled out , the catalogue of suspicions and circumstantial evidence did sound pretty feeble .
2 The scene as the game was adjourned on Thursday night told the whole story : Yusupov , head buried in hands , glumly contemplated the ruins of his previously wonderful position ; Karpov stood impassively behind his own chair , surveying the battleground with quiet authority .
3 He was on a short Embarkation Leave and told the whole story once again to Clarissa .
4 The young man , with no means of meeting the acceptance when it came due , took fright and told the whole story to J.W. who told his father who , on the advice of his solicitor , consented to pay back the borrowed £150 with interest at five per cent per annum , and to return the trumpery jewellery which luckily his son had considered too worthless to sell .
5 The actions told the whole story .
6 Putting her head against his , she bravely told the whole story of her meeting with Alec d'Urberville and its results .
7 He told the whole story to Marc , he said , and there was another row , with Marc calling him everything under the sun .
8 Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ?
9 Besides none of us ever knew the whole story , even though it was as plain as a pikestaff when you came to think about it .
10 But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story .
11 Inevitably , Nora had the whole story within minutes .
12 He took me to see a man who had the whole story .
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