| story be | 213.17 | The story is largely true. | ||
| story have | 25.41 | Both stories had happy endings. | ||
| story go | 18.70 | And so the story goes. | ||
| story begin | 12.84 | And the story begins. | ||
| story move | 12.38 | No story will move. | ||
| story end | 9.08 | There the story ended. | ||
| story come | 8.95 | So the stories come. | ||
| story take | 8.03 | Real stories take time. | ||
| story become | 7.57 | Here the story becomes murky. | ||
| story appear | 7.31 | A newspaper story appeared. | ||
| story make | 6.91 | The story made the news media. | ||
| story unfold | 6.85 | Slowly, a story unfolds. | ||
| story slug | 6.52 | The story slugged APEC-Subic stands for that item. | ||
| story break | 6.39 | All their stories have broken on hard facts. | ||
| story say | 6.39 | His stories say we will. | ||
| story tell | 5.33 | Our stories tell us so. | ||
| story abound | 5.27 | Stories abound. | ||
| story get | 5.27 | The story got worse. | ||
| story include | 5.07 | The stories rarely include a reason. | ||
| story seem | 4.87 | The story hardly seems true. |