Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old woman telling me the story of her life shat herself halfway through the Second World War . |
| 2 | He told me the story again as we sat in the campsite in Skaftafell . |
| 3 | Sharmi told me the story : |
| 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 | I ask him if he 'll tell me the story again , but he just looks over at me and shakes his head . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me the story , ’ she said gently , and then , with a harder edge , ‘ All of it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll give you a hand — if you 'll give me the story . ’ |
| 8 | To me the story — egotistical as it is — rings true . |
| 9 | TOM : Tell me the story again . |
| 10 | Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign . |
| 11 | He told me the story . |
| 12 | In the days to come she would tell me the story , she would teach me many things . |
| 13 | While I gratefully sipped my pint , they told me the story . |
| 14 | Between them , my new-found friends told me the story . |
| 15 | SHE TOLD me the story , but not before she had advised me that she was absolutely scandalized . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's already told me the story and I 've read Claudia 's account . ’ |
| 17 | He tells me the story of two US servicemen who were stationed during the war near the Welsh town where he grew up . |
| 18 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This morning , as I cooked Crowe breakfast , he told me the story had ‘ national ’ written all over it . |
| 21 | He closed his moist , red-rimmed eyes and , in a voice soft and careful , told me the story of St Tom . |
| 22 | It will take me the story of my life . ’ |
| 23 | Tell me the story of the Queen of Sheba . ’ |
| 24 | He told me the story of the house . |
| 25 | She stayed long enough to tell me the story and never once remarked on the Ealing comedy taking place outside the window . |
| 26 | Now do you tell me the story you had from Lady Usk , or do I go to the old witch myself ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ To answer that , ’ the old man said , ‘ I need you to tell me the story of your girlhood . |
| 28 | Back at home , back at school and everything now , I do n't know , she never ever told me the story , she used to talked to Steffy she used to shut me off , and I thought I 'd |
| 29 | ‘ I felt like Coleridge 's Ancient Mariner , who waylays on the street the wedding guests going to the feast , inflicting on them the story of his misfortune . ’ |
| 30 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |