Collocations withstory
These are words often used in combination withstory.
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amazing story
This is an amazing story.
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anecdotal story
One problem for the reader is that the book exhibits mood swings from anecdotal stories.
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bedtime story
The venerable tradition of the bedtime story, a story intended to soothe anxieties and ease young children into sleep, is discarded with gleeful panache.
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classic story
It was a classic story.
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coherent story
Thus, it appears that for school-age children there may be a tension between telling a coherent story and including specific evaluative comments.
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coming-of-age story
Today, it is still regarded as a classic coming-of-age story.
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compelling story
It is that - a compelling story clearly told, based on thorough research and direct, first-hand knowledge.
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epic story
This epic story will ever be recounted in the chronicles of their own history and will remain alive in the memory of all peoples.
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fanciful story
The occasional fanciful story has appeared in the press, although one can sometimes believe what one reads there.
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fascinating story
It is a fascinating story.
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funny story
I shall tell a funny story at this point.
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harrowing story
She phoned her mum, told her harrowing story, and asked if she could return to the family home.
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humorous story
I should like to end with a humorous story which points a moral.
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incredible story
It is an incredible story.
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inside story
How much of the literary mind is an inside story at all?
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interesting story
The lottery rejection makes an interesting story in itself.
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lead story
All things being equal, local news will be the lead story in any news bulletin.
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love story
Part of this love story happened here.
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moving story
One team member told a moving story of ser ious illness in her youth.
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never-ending story
Against this background, we should now bring this never-ending story to a conclusion.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
news story
They are a summary of the summary which typically forms the first few lines of any news story.
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origin story
The series rewrote and updated their origin story.
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sad story
It's a sad story, engraved on my mind.
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scare story
That is no scare story.
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sordid story
It was then that the whole sordid story became clearer.
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top story
See the text for discussion of this 'top story' selection.
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two-part story
All fourteen episodes were then repeated in 2009, and the final two-part story later that year.
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whole story
However, this is not the whole story.
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wonderful story
This is a wonderful story.
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