Sentence examples for cracking stories from inspiring English sources

The publishers are a bit cheeky calling this collection 'complete' since it isn't; I can think of at least two cracking stories that aren't included.

You might say that it depends whether you think London is more like a novel or a painting, about cracking stories and crazy contrasts or about harmonious compositions.

Archaeology has some cracking stories to tell even if, of necessity, it tends to tell them rather slowly.

This is because the "cracked" story she has to tell is primarily that of her family: what it is to make your way, to survive in these surroundings.

"Novels aren't factual - they will mislead the children". Obviously suggesting opening up history with an inspirational dose of daydreaming and imagination by reading cracking good stories, like those by Eva Ibbotson, Elizabeth Laird and Michael Morpurgo, wasn't going to receive a standing ovation.

"We've got the return of the Daleks and the Weeping Angels – both of them poll-topping Doctor Who adversaries – in cracking new stories, we've got Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (it's what you've always wanted), we've got a glorious western with a Cyborg Gunslinger, the most unusual invasion Earth story ever and location shooting in New York for the Pond finale".

Ship-shape Viking Longship by Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom (Frances Lincoln, £10.99) A cracking good story and an engaging narrative voice are the two key characteristics guaranteed to keep young readers' attention from cover to cover.

Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, and a cracking good story.

A cracking good story requires something stronger at one end or the other, or both.

A cracking good story and dialogue to make your heart ache.

Vintage Fraser it is not, the author's family candidly admit, though "Captain in Calico", about real-life pirate John "Calico Jack Rackhamm, is still a "cracking little story".