Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the story of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In New Orleans , his brother and sister met Susan Schilling , who told them the story of her . |
| 3 | One afternoon , while walking in the gardens of Thornfield , he told me the story of his love-affair in Paris with a French dancer , Céline . |
| 4 | He closed his moist , red-rimmed eyes and , in a voice soft and careful , told me the story of St Tom . |
| 5 | He told me the story of the house . |
| 6 | But , erm , I told you the story of our cleaning lady . |
| 7 | Leo had chuckled when Barbara told him the story of Hubert 's conversion . |
| 8 | I told him the story of my adventures and about life in England , and he told me about his country and his people . |
| 9 | That same day , before the galley returned , Bridhe told her the story of the strange baby . |
| 10 | He told us the story of the lapuna tree , the mother of the forest . |