| #agrs | AV | EK | JT | SC | multi | adj | sentence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.c | 1.a | 1 | 1 | 1,1.a,1.c | 1 | He told Channel 4 's Answering Back that ` a touch on the brake to reduce excess demand ' was all that was needed . |
| 1 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7.a | 7,7.a,8 | 7 | The latter sell sluggishly , and seldom have a happy story to tell . |
| 1 | 7 | 7 | 7.s | 7.a | 7,7.a | 7.a | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 2 | 1 | 1.s | 1.s | 1 | 1,1.s | 1.s | Nadine 's mother Geraldine , 28 , told how the two young friends had been inseparable . |
| 2 | 1 | 1.s | 1.s | 1 | 1,1.s | 1 | For a long time his death was concealed from her ; her mother and others told her had gone to Europe to be cured . |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | I was so angry with him , I called him a jerk in the street , and worse than that , and I told my mum about it . |
| 3 | 1 | 1.s | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | If there has been some new EC directive on the interpretation of election results , we should be told . |
| 3 | 7.s | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | Sir Leon Brittan tells a famous story of how the Chancellor once raised interest rates half an hour after the Bundesbank , and uses this to illustrate that ` British sovereignty lasted for 30 minutes ' . |
| 3 | 1 | 1.s | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | If there is a certain activity that you wish to improve , please tell your teacher during your first phone call . |
| 3 | 1 | 1.s | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | He asked parish priest Rev Peter Rich to tell the family . |
| 3 | 2.a | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2,2.a | 2 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 3 | 1 | u | 1 | 1 | 1,u | 1 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
| 3 | 1 | 1.s | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | If my hon. Friend wants to hear them , I shall be more than happy to tell him afterwards . |
| 3 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | How , a week after that crazy decision , are we to place confidence in Ministers who talk about policing and crime prevention in our urban and rural communities when they can not tell one from t' other ? |
| 3 | 6 | 6 | x | 6 | 6 | 6 | The husband demurs only to tell his wife , in the form of a brief moral conclusion , to : … ne be namoore so large , Keep bet thy good … |
| 3 | 1 | 1.a | 1 | 1 | 1,1.a | 1 | A DOCTOR choked back tears yesterday as he told the Beverley Allitt murder trial how a seven-week-old baby had died inexplicably . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Christine Merlin also told Mr Justice Gatehouse that the fertility of her breeding geese diminished and goslings hatched with abnormalities such as ` heads on the wrong way round and wings in peculiar positions ' . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Small time burglars with the social skills of a potted shrimp telling me how they 're saving all their readies to invest in a club one day -- ` Maybe Puerto Banus , maybe Chesterfield , I 'm not sure yet . ' |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | There I enquired after Mrs Kelly , only to be told that she was dead ! |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 6 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | These awful conditions naturally made it quite impossible to tell what was happening actually on Krakatoa , but it is thought that some milder explosive activity continued . |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Dr Thomas Beddoes , a Bristol physician at Hotwells , told him of an opportunity to write for the Morning Chronicle in London , and Coleridge , with a heavy heart , almost accepted the editor 's ` very handsome offer ' . |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus . |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | He is still talking in terms of a new career , rather than retiring , and this is not surprising in view of the work ethic , which tells us that the only ` proper ' way for a man to spend his time is in productive employment and makes it very difficult for men to take up interests purely for the enjoyment . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ` In the first twelve months after marketing , ' the minister told parliament , ` CSM received an unprecedented number of adverse reaction reports . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Certainly anyone who has ever had a severe , immediate reaction to a food is likely to react in the same way if they are told that they have consumed some of the same food . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | The Coventry four-piece recently signed to the US arm of the company and an insider told NME : ` It seems likely that the deal will go ahead pretty soon ' . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ` My sister Kate works in the film business as a production assistant out there , ' she tells me . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Brian Revell , of the Transport and General Workers Union , told their London conference : ` We have a watchdog without teeth that can not bark . ' |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | A Liberty 's staff member said : ` We were told a phone call was made from the Palace saying the Queen was not happy and it had to come down . ' |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ` Yes Mum , ' I told her . |
| 6 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | It was human decision , or human perversity , which led to Boromir claiming the journey , with what chain of ill-effects and casualties no one can tell . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ` Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money . |
| 6 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | I would say to you that you must have a defibrillator available should your patient reperfuse on the way to hospital and develop ventricular fibrillation , because having salvaged the myocardium , it is a shame to lose the patient and we can not yet tell which patient will develop ventricular fibrillation and which will not . |
| 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | The story that one of them must have told a Daily Sketch reporter a year later was that sitting in a West End club and finding the cold unbearable they had decided to go somewhere warm . |
| 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | I think this single gimmick was enough to provide the detection element wile Ghote 's investigations among the more likely looking suspects enabled me , with diversions , to tell my story and to reflect in various ways on lines drawn and wedges advanced . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | If you tell him you have a pain in your chest , he just says , ` Well it 's because you came to prison , that 's why you have the pain . ' |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ` Just tell your faculty adviser you got a research grant from the DEA , and you 'll be spending the term at the American Embassy in Nicosia . ' |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | A link was also established with APEXCO , a DEA front company in Larnaca , when Zouher Kabbara told the court that he could contact Hurley there as necessary by telex . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | I even tell them that if they do not feel 100 per cent , they should not come to work . ' |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Last week , my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science said that he was not going to tell teachers how to teach in primary schools or pre-empt the outcome of the inquiry that he had just announced . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | However , Kiet told the Assembly that gross national product ( GNP ) had risen by 2.4 per cent . |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | When Lothar 's envoys arrived at Troyes , they told Charles to advance no further , and were unimpressed by his complaints about the treatment of Louis . |
| 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924--5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 6 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | We have no way of telling whether a simple Menuetto marking by Haydn or anyone else indicates that a movement is to go slow , fast or somewhere in between . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | But while there is tremendous pressure to get more black and Asian characters into stories , a publisher told PEN an author would not be allowed to have a black villain . |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ` We are talking to our employees telling them of our plans in a very detailed way . ' |