Example sentences of "story tell [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Joseph story told of the healing of conflict among brothers , it told also of the proper fulfilment of the bond between father and son . |
| 2 | But then life is invariably ultimately hard on someone with pretensions beyond their talents and a style best encapsulated in the story told about the boy in his Taunton constituency who asked him what the time was . |
| 3 | CD is alluding to a story told about the prince of dandies , Beau Brummel ( 1778–1840 ) , who was once asked by a lady whether he had ever tasted vegetables . |
| 4 | Or you could say that from the story told under the palm-tree or round the winter hearth there developed the novel . |
| 5 | From this the importance of Rorschach grew in the Middle Ages , a story told by the town 's many handsome old houses , with their enchantingly carved oriels . |
| 6 | Reception children are used to stories told in the form of consecutive images through comic strips ; they 're also familiar with " freeze frame " on video . |
| 7 | At last week 's meeting members took a trip down memory lane with Ron Beach , who had many fascinating stories to tell about the village — and he also prompted a few reminiscences from others who had tales to tell . |
| 8 | Probably she would have a good few stories to tell about the world they had come from . |
| 9 | Then , story telling by the fire . |
| 10 | To reintroduce us to the joys of story telling round the log fire , Signals rounded up a slightly disconcerting group of five contemporary writers , all strange to me . |
| 11 | Even the great spread of inter-war surburban houses , such as those which line the Kingston by-pass in Surrey , have a fascinating story to tell of the growth of such areas if we are prepared to look at them properly . |