Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] the story " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Grover listened carefully as Paddington told him the story . |
| 2 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 3 | Leo had chuckled when Barbara told him the story of Hubert 's conversion . |
| 4 | That same day , before the galley returned , Bridhe told her the story of the strange baby . |
| 5 | She rocked him gently while Bridhe told her the story , and she felt a confusion buzzing in her head . |
| 6 | Chris told us the story or how the man and the woman fed from this tree and , when they were away , to get at the food others chopped it down and the trunk became the Amazon , the branches its tributaries . |