Example sentences of "them the story of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In New Orleans , his brother and sister met Susan Schilling , who told them the story of her . |
| 4 | Mr Dixon could hardly believe his ears as Hank poured into them the story of the book and its apparent success . |
| 5 | For all of them the story of the Incarnation interprets and orders all possibilities of human experience . |