Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 2 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 3 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 4 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
| 5 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 6 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 7 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 8 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 9 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 10 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 11 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 12 | Then Tess went up to her mother , put her head on Joan 's shoulder , and told her the whole story . |
| 13 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 14 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |