Example sentences of "tell the whole story " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was on a short Embarkation Leave and told the whole story once again to Clarissa . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The actions told the whole story . |
| 5 | Putting her head against his , she bravely told the whole story of her meeting with Alec d'Urberville and its results . |
| 6 | He told the whole story to Marc , he said , and there was another row , with Marc calling him everything under the sun . |
| 7 | I was obsessed with the way they looked , but I knew I was n't being told the whole story about them . ’ |
| 8 | Do n't assume you 're being told the whole story this week just because you ca n't imagine how anyone could distort it . |
| 9 | They start at the beginning and tell the whole story , pulling no mathematical punches but providing so much historical and biographical material , as well as physical explanations , that a complete mathematical ignoramus could gain much from the work by reading the words and skipping the equations . |
| 10 | Either Choose one of these and tell the whole story of what happened — as if you were one of the people in the story . |
| 11 | A resolution proposed at the 1912 National Union Conference tells the whole story ; originally the resolution approved , " the candidature of Unionist working men and earnestly recommends the allocation to one of them of a safe and suitable seat at some by-election in the near future , as evidence of the reality of the movement " . |
| 12 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 13 | The championship may be a two-man affair , but the numbers game does not tell the whole story and Carson is riding with as much inspiration and dash as either of the younger men . |
| 14 | No way do the charts tell the whole story — the new underground is of much more interest and relevance . |
| 15 | Of course it 's early days yet , I suppose , but I do so wish there was someone I could tell the whole story to . |
| 16 | But round the clock televised commentary by David Dimbleby and British officer types on loan from the Gentleman 's Club Of Choice or press conferences chaired by Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf live from Saudi could never tell the whole story . |
| 17 | Baptismal , confirmation , membership and communicant figures do not tell the whole story . |
| 18 | But it wo n't tell the whole story . |
| 19 | The image of Neil Young as the wayward eccentric does n't tell the whole story , not by a long way . |
| 20 | In some countries , national and racial minorities meant that total population figures do not tell the whole story about military strength . |
| 21 | The analytical results may not tell the whole story because they depend upon samples taken at particular times , whereas supplies . |
| 22 | ‘ But even he may not tell the whole story . ’ |
| 23 | Okay , okay , okay , statistics do n't tell the whole story . |
| 24 | There are some cracking discount deals around at the moment as lenders attempt to drum up new business , but watch out as the headline interest rate does n't always tell the whole story . |
| 25 | It was n't just some inevitable reserve because of the age difference , and it was n't just that she was an intensely private person whose public persona did n't tell the whole story . |
| 26 | Your books do not tell the whole story . |
| 27 | Simple numbers , however , do not tell the whole story . |
| 28 | ‘ Adrar , ’ I said , not telling the whole story . |
| 29 | That growing sectors of the labouring population were pushed into the market falls short of telling the whole story of its expansion . |
| 30 | Teaching children should always be taken at the child 's pace , answering questions as truthfully and accurately as possible , rather than trying to tell the whole story . |