Example sentences of "[coord] warn [pers pn] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days of the Raj , British passengers on the Rajputana State Railway received enviable attention : this handbook is a personalized itinerary for Miss Baring and warns her that she may be kept awake by one train driver 's ‘ unpleasant whistle ’ . |
| 2 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 3 | ‘ Several minutes after we returned , my station officer called me in to his office and warned me that as I was not working by London Ambulance Service guidelines I would be stood down without pay . ’ |
| 4 | They said plans by the giant American Anheuser-Busch , brewer of American Budweiser , to take a 30 per cent stake in its pint-pot Czech rival should be rejected , and warned them that the US firm sought outright ownership . |
| 5 | I told him I should have to publish Sir Hubert 's disclaimer , and warned him that an unedited publication would endanger implementation of an appointment from which Burmans expected so much , and would also lead to an unhappy relationship between the paper and the government . |
| 6 | The pornography squad had just visited Brian Moore and warned him that if he took a new ‘ adult contact ’ magazine , Way Out , the law would move , fast . |
| 7 | The custodian told him he had seen ‘ Lady Greensleeves ’ , and warned him that she only visited those in danger . |
| 8 | In 1629 the Tsar Mikhail severely reproved Louis XIII himself for failing to use his full title in official letters and warned him that " We can not approve your habit of wishing to be our friend and yet denying and taking from us the titles and qualities which almighty God has given us and which we so justly possess . " |
| 9 | The court heard that Baillie had asked another man to hide the gun and warned him that he could be the next to be 'blown away' |
| 10 | I shot him in the back ’ Bailie asked Larkins to hide the gun and warned him that if anything happened to it , he 'd be the next to be ’ blown away ’ |
| 11 | ‘ After taking into account several factors , the committee have severely reprimanded him and warned him that any further misconduct would result in very harsh penalties being imposed . ’ |
| 12 | The principal was immediately cautious and warned her that the boy was under age . |
| 13 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 14 | Mrs Blakey would immediately tell her husband and Mr Blakey would immediately go to wherever it was this boy lived and warn him that if he did n't stop the police would be informed . |
| 15 | Ranald fetched his harp , and he sang a story of a great selkie , one of the seal people , who loved a land maiden but warned her that if she took their son away from him , the baby would kill him when he grew up ; but in fear that her child would become a wild selkie himself she stole the baby and reared him inland as a normal man . |
| 16 | We were due at Chauk , an old field town , next day and Captain Tizzard advised me to take Rachel to the hospital there , but warned me that he could not delay his sailing for more than a few hours . |
| 17 | The judge told Cranog Jones that his plan had been ingenious , but warned him that as a magistrate , he would have a hard time in prison . |
| 18 | Suffering then becomes God 's megaphone , as C. S. Lewis puts it , not merely to nudge our personalities towards God , but to warn us that our lives are wholly unreal unless God actually enters into them . |