Example sentences of "story told [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | CD is alluding to a story told about the prince of dandies , Beau Brummel ( 1778–1840 ) , who was once asked by a lady whether he had ever tasted vegetables . |
| 2 | But then life is invariably ultimately hard on someone with pretensions beyond their talents and a style best encapsulated in the story told about the boy in his Taunton constituency who asked him what the time was . |
| 3 | Or you could say that from the story told under the palm-tree or round the winter hearth there developed the novel . |
| 4 | One story told against the KGB is that it tried to steal the design secrets of the Anglo-French supersonic aircraft Concorde . |
| 5 | The most popular story told by the regulars to casual strangers , concerned a very large Swedish seaman who had visited the Blue Boar with a couple of shipmates one evening before the war . |
| 6 | From this the importance of Rorschach grew in the Middle Ages , a story told by the town 's many handsome old houses , with their enchantingly carved oriels . |
| 7 | Indeed , Clara knew from first hand experience the moral truth of the story told in The Golden Windows about the house with the golden windows , for she had once admired from a friend 's house the whole dazzling , distant , smoky lay-out of her own hillside . |
| 8 | But there was another version of the Lambeth story told within the British Union of Fascists , to which he later belonged . |
| 9 | Reception children are used to stories told in the form of consecutive images through comic strips ; they 're also familiar with " freeze frame " on video . |