Pointing to a chair without looking up, Nicky brusquely informed me that he'd explained the system to CD and Gubbins, who were very impressed by its simplicity.

He brusquely informed me that anything to do with addresses was of the utmost importance, and he'd like me to explain Playfair at a later stage.

Gubbins brusquely informed me that my understanding of agents was strictly limited to teaching them codes, and Netball was a case in point.

The two elderly brothers who printed WOKs on silk brusquely informed me that they'd fallen behind with their other commitments, at they were suffering from shortage of staff and defective machinary, and that they saw no prospect of the situation improving.

A doctor came in, and seeing the patient exhausted and dejected brusquely informed him, "Well, you knew nothing can really be done."

Last year, after the federation announced that its highest decision-making body, the World Assembly, would meet in Hong Kong in July 1997, Beijing brusquely informed the church group that this was not an appropriate time for the gathering.

However, when Charles Berg asked Stieglitz if he, too, was a Photo-Secessionist, Stieglitz brusquely informed him that he was not.

After some edgy parrying, she brusquely informs him that she is pregnant.

Secondly, she brusquely informs them that their new waitress is to be one of the resistance girls - a former gang leader from Paris.

After brusquely informing him that there was no cure for his disease, and that it surely would shorten his life, the doctor told him to come back the following week to begin chemotherapy treatment.