21.   Let me tell you a sad tale.

22.   This is a sad tale.

23.   When amendments were offered to soften the worst anti-environmental riders, the tally of votes told a sad tale.

24.   Why the opera was never completed is a sad tale.

25.   A sad tale of the love between Konstantin from Macedonia and Elena from Albania.

26.   Her fellow songwriters grimaced in sympathy and recognition as Donna Summer told a sad tale of writing a song for Rod Stewart, then losing her nerve.

27.   I told my sad tale to all and sundry and yes, I escaped the fate that awaited me that day.

28.   It is a sad tale that assets that took generations to acquire are now going to be in the hands of foreigners.

29.   The reports told the sad tale of engineers who had to seek consolation work as salesmen and vendors of insurance policies.