Example sentences of "of stories [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout March and April the newspapers carried a plethora of stories suggesting either that there would be a further challenge to Mrs Thatcher when the next leadership election fell due in November , or that there would be strong pressure on her to announce her retirement before then . |
| 2 | Later rushing-about games may be more organized and contentful when children base their play on ideas from a shared story or group of stories heard , seen , or read . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’ |
| 5 | In moving towards a reappraisal of the demon , through an appropriation of the negative naming , this collection of stories contributes not only to an extension of the possibilities of the horror/sci-fi genre but also to the continuing development of a herstory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Collection of stories said to be the missing prototype for Finnegans Wake . |
| 8 | A number of stories using such imagery were run by both the quality and the popular press during this period , but similar arguments are to be found in parliamentary debates ( Hansard , vol. 84 , 21 October 1985 , cols. 30-.46 , 388 ) , and even in official reports produced by the police on the riots in Birmingham and London . |
| 9 | From the dozens of stories collected , Labov proposes the narrative categories shown in Table 2 . |
| 10 | To perfect the accent you could obtain one of many BBC records of stories told in various accents . |
| 11 | As an author , the name of Ernest Bramah first came to public notice with The Wallet of Kai Lung ( 1900 ) , the first of his collection of stories told by a wandering Chinaman in the manner of the Arabian Nights ' tales and in an elaborate Mandarin style ostensibly of Chinese translated into flowery English language . |
| 12 | That is what this new network is about — live events , expert commentary , a wider range of stories told — and in more depth . |
| 13 | If a user wants to read all the news stories on say , Lloyd 's insurance , he or she simply types in the name on a computer keyboard and a complete list of stories appears on the screen in seconds . |
| 14 | Moreover , the findings from Stein and Trabasso 's ( 1982 ) study of children 's understanding of stories suggest that five-year-olds are able to use the matching rule to infer an intention from information about a result . |
| 15 | A variety of stories flowed . |
| 16 | The four pages contain a number of stories describing people 's encounters with sea monsters of different kinds . |
| 17 | One group of stories follows a fashionable course in involving lads in the mid-teens ( the almost obligatory age for junior adventure heroes for many decades ) with criminals of one kind or another . |
| 18 | The themes that pervade this collection of stories have an appropriate gravity . |
| 19 | What kind of stories do they seem to prefer ? |
| 20 | I do n't know where those kind of stories start . |
| 21 | ‘ It may interest a collector of stories to frighten children , ’ said Holmes . |
| 22 | It is of course a very difficult subject to talk about and many families who know or suspect that a relative has killed himself or tried to , are ashamed and refuse to talk about it , or make up all kinds of stories to cover the fact up . |
| 23 | Been lots of stories going round , as you can imagine . |
| 24 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 25 | For the abrupt , hasty manner of Pound 's criticism seems to some readers to carry the implication ( to which Pound in fact did not subscribe ) that no critic is worth listening to unless he has laboured at the maker 's workbench ; that all worthwhile criticism of stories comes from story-tellers , that only poets are worth listening to about poems . |