Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] story [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 2 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 3 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 4 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 5 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 6 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 7 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |