Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] the [adj] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | His is the remarkable story of a young man with hardly any academic ability . |
| 2 | It 's the usual story , lack of investment . |
| 3 | But I do n't think it 's the whole story Wendy . |
| 4 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 5 | It 's the same story with all the children . |
| 6 | It 's the same story — everyone falls back on it . |
| 7 | But it 's the same story . |
| 8 | And it 's the same story in many other rivers throughout the Amazon basin . |
| 9 | It 's the same story up the road in Blaisdon … a village that for decades has been famed for its plums . |
| 10 | It 's the same story in the Anglian region . |
| 11 | It 's the old story that women are still judged — for their looks , temperament , authority — in a way that men are not . |
| 12 | It 's the old story of the personal ; |
| 13 | It 's the old story . |
| 14 | " It 's the old story of catching them young , " he said . |
| 15 | Er , and you start pressurising yourself all day , and it 's the old story , I have n't got time for planning , I 'd better get on with it . |
| 16 | There was a children 's outing that day and I 'm afraid it 's the old story . |
| 17 | It 's the old story — we did n't choose her , she chose us — but she 's very sweet and a great source of amusement . |
| 18 | I mean it 's the old story , is n't it , one person who gets killed on a Bank Holiday car crash is not news but four getting killed together is a disaster , is newsworthy , I mean that 's the way it works . |
| 19 | When they read to us they do n't skip bits , or mind if it is the same story over again . |
| 20 | It is the same story again . |
| 21 | It is the same story with company shares ( or equities as they are called ) . |
| 22 | At Downe Hospital , it is the same story . |
| 23 | It was the ancient story of the Romans playing off outside powers , but it was opportune for Innocent . |
| 24 | THE stock market rang out 1989 in fine style yesterday but for the pound it was the familiar story of a struggling recovery from a previous hefty fall . |
| 25 | ‘ I think we 've had a break-in , ’ I said , thinking it was the best story to push and concentrating on pulling up my jeans . |
| 26 | It was the third story in an evening bulletin , and the tone of the commentary implied the legitimacy of their struggle . |
| 27 | It was the same story which brought about the downfall of another huge yard — Tyne — in October 1989 . |
| 28 | But to the north , where the main Himalayan chain should have loomed , the curtain never parted , and it was the same story in the morning . |
| 29 | It was the same story in the Congo and again in Zaire . |
| 30 | Noel Koch of the Defence Department came across North one day in the corridor , frazzled ; it was the same story . |