Example sentences of "[noun] told [pers pn] the [adj] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 3 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |