Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] the story " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one time when he was doing some other business with the woman we called Mrs Howard , he sold her the story for a few marks . |
| 2 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |
| 3 | He told me the story again as we sat in the campsite in Skaftafell . |
| 4 | He told me the story about where he got it — it was real interesting , and a true story — not a made-up one . |
| 5 | He told me the story . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This morning , as I cooked Crowe breakfast , he told me the story had ‘ national ’ written all over it . |
| 8 | He told me the story of the house . |
| 9 | He told us the story of the lapuna tree , the mother of the forest . |