Example sentences of "story [prep] how the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During police interviews , Harper changed his story about how the fire started , according to Sergeant Gibb . |
| 2 | Lola gets up to no good with her handsome boyfriend , but it 's a basic boy meets girl story of how the pair defiantly take on the world . |
| 3 | The story of how the Birmingham radical , turned ‘ unionist ’ in the United Kingdom context , became Colonial Secretary in a Tory administration is well remembered . |
| 4 | I therefore told the story of how the milk can got its dent . |
| 5 | It will tell the story of how the rules of the sport were established , the great men and institutions behind them … and some of the scandals . |
| 6 | Next day , La Clava carried the bloodthirsty story of how the king of one of the United Arab Emirates had murdered his brother for love of a gorgeous American woman named Maria Nuria Nussberg . |
| 7 | Alternatively the story of how the Robartes family came to have the money to build Lanhydrock House in the Fowey valley could be considered a tale of blatant exploitation , outrageous usury and greed . |
| 8 | The epic story of how the citizens of Phocaea abandoned their town rather than submit to the Persians is told by Herodotus 1.163 ff . |
| 9 | Presenter Michael Buerk had reconstructed the true story of how the man was rescued by helicopter after collapsing by a canal . |
| 10 | The story of how the defenders withstood the might of Cromwell 's army , of how the Honours were smuggled out from the castle under the very noses of the English and hidden beneath the floor of nearby Kineff Kirk , and of how they lay buried for eight long years until returned once more to Edinburgh Castle , is one of the most well known , oft-repeated tales of Scottish history . |
| 11 | All this variability both within and between people suggests that the story of how the Stress Syndrome comes about can not be as simple as the Hay Fever Theory would have us believe . |
| 12 | Many years after the war the story of how the Enigma code was eventually broken was told and , as is often the case with officially approved histories , it was implied that the success was entirely that of GCCS . |
| 13 | The variety of the sources of support for a national scheme of family allowances are an important feature of the story of how the scheme was accepted and implemented . |
| 14 | He showed Horsley and Everett politely round the castle , explaining how parts dated back to the fifteenth century , and telling the preposterous , but true , story of how the building , formerly the family home of the Fenwicks , had been shifted stone by stone from the foot of the hill in the 1930s to give it the spectacular view it now enjoyed . |
| 15 | The story of how the foundation of Massalia was no violent encroachment upon alien territory was already reported by Aristotle ( fr. 549 Rose ) . |
| 16 | This is the story of how the carol Silent night was written . |
| 17 | Sir Leon Brittan tells a famous story of how the Chancellor once raised interest rates half an hour after the Bundesbank , and uses this to illustrate that ‘ British sovereignty lasted for 30 minutes ’ . |
| 18 | There was a large picture of the Pope in tarmac-kissing mode and the story of how the paper had entered his birthdate on the British Telecom horoscope service . |
| 19 | After focusing on the Boston Consulting Group ( BCG ) analysis of the situation , which emphasized the importance of building scale and lower costs through experience-curve effects , Pascale visited Japan to get the story of how the Honda executives planned their entry into American markets . |
| 20 | The second part of our series on the agency tells the story of how the photographs were taken , and how the agency came to own them . |
| 21 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 22 | Swingbeat New Editioners Bell Biv Devoe are hanging out in the lounge telling stories of how the helicopter in their latest video toppled off a windy roof . |
| 23 | " You hear all kinds of stories of how the Indian is oppressed by the white man , " Dr. Favor said . |
| 24 | They repeat stories of how the Tower was built on a place used for ancient sacrifice . |