Example sentences of "i a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 2 | Our chairman , Mr Denis Hill-Wood [ son of Sir Samuel ] , put it succinctly when he discussed the board 's role with me a number of years ago . |
| 3 | He sent me a number of his books , all suitably inscribed in his very Chinese style , and I stopped off to visit him and his wife at Brighton , south of Boston , in 1951 . |
| 4 | Maxine asked me a number of the usual questions , and I answered each one in turn hoping to set her mind at rest . |
| 5 | She offered me a number I could ring in Chicago to make a claim for making a call to Chicago . |
| 6 | He gave me a number to ring in London . |
| 7 | I found 25 kilos ( 40 lb ) was sufficient and this cost £9 , giving me a number of separate large pieces to arrange into a series of reef-like outcrops . |
| 8 | He showed me a number of meticulous pencil drawings which had served for portraits . |
| 9 | he gave me a number to phone and I 've tried phoning and I 've not had a response , but I 'll keep trying |
| 10 | ‘ But Tatyana Nowak said to me a number of Poles had a grudge against Mills for something or other — she did n't say what , and I had no chance to find out . ’ |
| 11 | I was captured by the Gestapo during the war and was terrified because I had on me a number of incriminating documents , lists of names , maps and so on . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman asked me a number of specific questions . |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Southend , West asked me a number of specific questions . |
| 14 | Other customers just give me a number and a date ; eight thousand girdles model 6a in these sizes for this delivery date . |
| 15 | What number is Rita on give me a number because I have n't got white ? |
| 16 | ‘ Mr O'Hare came to me a number of times complaining that he was being pestered . |
| 17 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 18 | in fact , one time when they was out they give me a number , I go , and I got ! |
| 19 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 20 | No , but she said like , she said it could come today cos she says they deliver I says is there no way I said you can give me a number I said that I could get in contact , she said no , she said were 're not allowed to do that |