Example sentences of "[adv prt] the story " in BNC.
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| 1 | He copied down the story at once , and began to make notes on it . |
| 2 | Imagine , then , that Mandela had written down the story of his life , and that the manuscript was for sale . |
| 3 | THE White House is still trying desperately to live down the story of US President Bill Clinton 's 200 dollar haircut — almost a week after the trim aboard Air Force One closed down part of Los Angeles airport . |
| 4 | Downing Street tried to dampen down the story , saying the press officer had not mentioned anything about ‘ whingers ’ . |
| 5 | They put in their own names , and chuckle over the story . |
| 6 | To finish off the story she married a millionaire in Tennessee , so she 's OK . ’ |
| 7 | Dave takes up the story . |
| 8 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 9 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 10 | At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today . |
| 11 | Sergio Pininfarina himself takes up the story behind this amazing concept car . |
| 12 | Gus Dudgeon , who produced ‘ Space Oddity ’ in the end , picks up the story . |
| 13 | ‘ Comes round wavin' his byelaws at us ’ her Cousin Jake took up the story . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Robert has worked up the story very well . |
| 15 | Tonight it 's my turn ; he 'll expect me to take up the story where he left off , but I 've no intention of doing that . |
| 16 | We pick up the story with Cain plotting fiendishly against his brother . |
| 17 | Under the guise of outrage , the Daily Post self-righteously took up the story , forcing the other Fleet Street newspapers to follow suit . |
| 18 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 19 | Lord Home takes up the story : |
| 20 | Over the years two streams have perpetually flowed together to make up the story of this congregation . |
| 21 | Randy takes up the story … |
| 22 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 23 | She broke down in tears and confessed to making up the story of how she was abducted and held by two men for 36 hours . |
| 24 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 25 | Northampton chief executive , Steve Coverdale , takes up the story : ‘ Paul , like all the Staffordshire bowlers , had some pretty horrendous figures . |
| 26 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 27 | Stephen Ross ( no relation ) , a director with 3i in Birmingham , takes up the story : ‘ We knew Alistair Ross and respected what he had done with the other poultry business . |
| 28 | He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east . |
| 29 | John Burns takes up the story : ‘ The green is long and narrow and the approach shot has to be perfect . |
| 30 | The local press and radio picked up the story and carried it week after week — for a couple of years the gay struggle was big news for the folks back home . |