Example sentences of "inform [pron] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder .
2 Ted Heath was sent to inform me of the result .
3 ‘ I telephoned the coastguard and port authority on Friday night to inform them of the event , start times and which VHF frequency we would be using .
4 The police were called to resolve the dispute , and although Mr Levy did not make a formal complaint he contacted Arsenal Football Club to inform them of the incident .
5 In a statement issued on his behalf yesterday , the Labour leader , said : ‘ I am consulting with colleagues to inform them of the action which I propose to take in the wake of the election defeat .
6 We have had a couple of occasions where the money can not be claimed back recently , so this is just to inform you of the position that the insurers are taking .
7 Your local Age Concern group may be able to inform you of the help available in the area to assist you with your fuel or heating problem .
8 This message is displayed to inform you of the mail identifier for the preceeding transaction .
9 ‘ I am extremely sorry to inform you of the death of poor Mary Flint — the haemorrhage from the stomach had ceased for nearly a week in consequence of which her other symptoms became aggravated .
10 Assuming that she is asymptomatic , she either depends on the male who infected her to inform her of the diagnosis or , if he does not , wait for the next person with whom she has intercourse to develop symptoms , discover the diagnosis , and then contact her with the bad news .
11 ‘ We 're all fine , there 's no damage to the building and we 've been able to continue broadcasting without interruption , ’ she assured him , her voice sharp as resentment rose , and she went on to inform him of the decision she had taken .
12 I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons .
13 Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) .
14 ( 2 ) Before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make such representations , the Secretary of State is required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which is relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for these purposes .
15 The company has written to several hundred people living near its acrylics production area informing them of the possibility .
16 In early 1991 after the Australian Federal Court found the Tobacco Institute of Australia guilty of publishing misleading information about the health effects of passive smoking , Quit wrote to 175 000 organisations informing them of the decision and inviting them to participate in its workplace campaign .
17 Should there be an unexpected early departure of a guest , a notification slip is circulated to all departments immediately , informing them of the name and room number of the departing guest .
18 He said a letter sent to competitors informing them of the restriction and threatening possible exclusion of wheelchairs from future London marathons if the rule was not adhered to should not have been sent .
19 If the arrivals and departures list has already been circulated , a change of room notification slip must be sent to all departments informing them of the room change .
20 The reception office will then contact the housekeeping department , informing them of the complaint , who should then deal with the matter immediately .
21 He thereupon immediately wrote to Kingsway Motors informing them of the situation and claiming the return of his purchase price .
22 I met with the station officers at St Anne 's Head in June of this year and informed them of the way that divers should be operating .
23 In his address to the two houses of the Parliament he proclaimed : ‘ My reign does not date from 1815 ; it dates from the moment you informed me of the nation 's votes . ’
24 Margaret Geeson , the nurse in charge of the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital children 's ward that day , said she could not remember Allitt ever informing her of the incident .
25 In view of the help she had rendered the group , Gedge also wrote to Sara Catt , Charman 's girlfriend , informing her of the situation too .
26 When the goods have been dispatched , the manufacturer sends an advice note to the retailer informing him of the date and time of dispatch .
27 At the time of his resignation Miyazawa had stated that an aide , Tsuneo Hattori , had purchased the shares without informing him of the transaction .
28 The letter informing him of the sentence pronounced upon him was headed derisively : ‘ The Holy Synod to Nestorius the new Jew . ’
29 King Edward must have guessed this , or possibly some English sympathiser had slipped out of the town by night in a small boat undetected , which was quite possible , and informed him of the situation .
30 I was quite surprised at his reaction when I informed him of the death of ‘ Egg and chips twice ’ .
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