Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [pers pn] the [adj] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 4 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 5 | 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 . |