1.   If it should turn out that the fire was started by an arsonist, the story will take on additional meaning.

2.   Our story takes place in a far-off land, long, long ago.

3.   The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War.

4.   And in two years of travel, she said, the stories have taken an emotional toll.

5.   And so it was inevitable that the story took on a life of its own.

6.   And so an already bizarre story took another weird twist.

7.   As is usual with these parodies, the story takes a back seat to the gags, many of which feel a bit secondhand.

8.   As Halpine tells it, the story took on its own life.

9.   As the new film by European director Wim Wenders gets under way, the story takes directions that promise something rich, thoughtful, even artistic.

10.   As the evening wore on and the fruit of the grape flowed freely, stories took on a more personal touch.