Example sentences of "[prep] a short story " in BNC.
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| 1 | King 's X 's first two albums proved the Houston trio one of the more inventive rock groups of their age , and one of the weirdest ; those albums were titled ‘ Out of the Silent Planet ’ and ‘ Gretchen Goes To Nebraska ’ , the latter after a short story written by the drummer ! |
| 2 | King 's X 's first two albums proved the Houston trio one of the more inventive rock groups of their age , and one of the weirdest ; those albums were titled ‘ Out of the Silent Planet ’ and ‘ Gretchen Goes To Nebraska ’ , the latter after a short story written by the drummer ! |
| 3 | Mr Cook 's speech alone was the length of a short story . |
| 4 | A ‘ response ’ such as the genre transformation of a short story into a poem or one-act play may also lead some pupils towards written analysis of the more traditional kind . |
| 5 | In the remainder of this chapter we shall apply the categories in 3.1 selectively to three texts which are comparable both in length and in that each of them is the opening passage of a short story . |
| 6 | Poetics is replaced by a basic evaluative typology of texts , and criticism by commentary ( in this case of a short story by Balzac called ‘ Sarrasine ’ ) . |
| 7 | " Postcript : and so to bed " , an unmistakable token of its author 's skill and wit , is presented in the form of a short story narrated from two viewpoints , His and Hers , which allude to the style of actionbooks and romances respectively . |
| 8 | He entered ‘ The Illegal Divorce ’ for a short story competition and won third prize . |
| 9 | The pivotal early scene in The Buddha of Suburbia ( Faber & Faber , 2 April , £12.99 ) started out as a short story in the TLS . |
| 10 | Both are science fiction works , although ‘ Fahrenheit 451 ’ is a novel and ‘ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ’ began as a short story and was later expanded into a novel . |
| 11 | Told the whole world through a short story , if they wanted to read it . |
| 12 | the danger with a short story is self-indulgence . |
| 13 | Sketch of a reusable coffin from a short story by Ludwig Bemelmans published during the Second World War . |
| 14 | In a short story ballet this intrusion of extra materials is unlikely . |
| 15 | Mrs Meacock and Araminta had made a first appearance in a short story , ‘ The Prerogative of Love ’ . |
| 16 | One of Isaac Bashevis Singer 's characters in a short story tells the narrator-author : ‘ You once wrote that human nature is such that one can not do anything in a straight line . |
| 17 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 18 | Your method of narration is likely to be different in a short story . |
| 19 | However , you could use that initial unthinking response to the idea " vicar " to fool your reader , as for instance in a short story , by saying no more about the vicar and elsewhere stating that the murder could have been committed only by a man of enormous physical strength . |
| 20 | Teaching stylistics : analysing cohesion and narrative structure in a short story by Ernest Hemingway |
| 21 | On one occasion a publisher simply changed the family in a short story from white to Asian . |
| 22 | Based on a short story by Thomas Tryon . |