Example sentences of "told the whole story " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene as the game was adjourned on Thursday night told the whole story : Yusupov , head buried in hands , glumly contemplated the ruins of his previously wonderful position ; Karpov stood impassively behind his own chair , surveying the battleground with quiet authority . |
| 2 | He was on a short Embarkation Leave and told the whole story once again to Clarissa . |
| 3 | The young man , with no means of meeting the acceptance when it came due , took fright and told the whole story to J.W. who told his father who , on the advice of his solicitor , consented to pay back the borrowed £150 with interest at five per cent per annum , and to return the trumpery jewellery which luckily his son had considered too worthless to sell . |
| 4 | The actions told the whole story . |
| 5 | Putting her head against his , she bravely told the whole story of her meeting with Alec d'Urberville and its results . |
| 6 | He told the whole story to Marc , he said , and there was another row , with Marc calling him everything under the sun . |