1.   Dexter guessed immediately that the man was trying to extract an exclusive story on the investigation into the murder of Nicola Sharpe.

2.   He had promised the newspaper a big story on a major celebrity.

3.   I had heard this story on at least four separate occasions.

4.   I went to Iraq to do a story on the war.

5.   I would write a story on my new Smith-Corona.

6.   She put her bag with the story on the passenger seat and drove as if it were a newborn baby.

7.   The floods were the lead story on the news that evening.

8.   Understandably, her death was the lead story on the nightly news that evening.

9.   The reporters went into overdrive to finish their stories on time.