Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the story " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He asked me to circulate the story of his death . |
| 2 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 3 | The girl later admitted she made the story up to get back at the teacher for punishing her boyfriend . |
| 4 | I could not understand what he meant , and wanted to hear more about Céline , so I encouraged him to finish the story . |
| 5 | Alarm bells rang with Liz when she heard it tells the story of an ageing , boozy Hollywood star who falls for a young construction worker she meets in a clinic . |
| 6 | When I showed my few pages to Shelley , he urged me to develop the story at greater length , and to underline the main idea more powerfully . |
| 7 | At the sermon , Father McKenna introduced one of his altar boys , Colm by name , and got him to tell the story about how he and his altar boy teammates had recently beaten another altar boys ' team by eight goals to five . |
| 8 | Sinclair made him tell the story twice . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you find the story interesting ? ’ asked Dr Mortimer . |
| 10 | She said did you know the story cos she does n't like the story very much . |
| 11 | There was only one question in his mind when he read the papers : had they taken the story far enough ? |