The ball has been played to the fielder who holds on to it; the bowler has informed you that he is going around the wicket and starts to walk back to his mark – so the ball must be dead.
These days, as your social-media feeds may have informed you, the miracle is happening to the generation born after 1980, or, as it is sometimes known, the millennials.
I made the facial gesture whereby you look like the administrator of NASA after the President has informed you that he wants you to land an astronaut on Mars, by next Wednesday.
Our prisons - as the raft of weekly headlines will no doubt have informed you - are in trouble.
They've informed you that the hotel, you chose is not a good choice because it's now under a noisy renovation.
If, unlike me, your Facebook friends aren't almost exclusively feminist bloggers and people who make vagina-based art, your feed may not have informed you of that important fact.
The previous steps should have informed you precisely what type of PAC you need to organize your group under.
Or say you were an East German after reunification: would you want to read files that may show that your spouse had informed against you?
With this movie, the eighties delivered a bitter, all but unanswerable slap to the mantras of the sixties: money, contrary to what Paul McCartney had informed us, could buy you love.
Says Goldstein, "If you had informed investors, none of these funds would exist because no one would buy them in the first place".
