Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the men was nervous , so the guard asked them the number of the car they were driving . |
| 2 | He showed no surprise when Blanche told him the number plate of the car was false , and Nowak emphasised he did not want the police to press charges if the driver was found . |
| 3 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 4 | I told her the number straight off . |
| 5 | And they called it the number one . |
| 6 | When she passed him the number of her room ( thinking no one else knew she had ) and left to await him , he remained in the ballroom drinking , and when I left at midnight he was still there looking bored and lonely , missing his live-in girlfriend Marie Lisa Volpelierre ( who not long after died so tragically in a riding accident ) . |
| 7 | If I was outside , she said she could telephone me every day for nothing , if I gave her the number of a phone box and arranged to be there for a certain time … |
| 8 | He gave her the number . |
| 9 | She dialled the unlisted number , identified herself to Sarah at UNACO headquarters , and gave her the number of the phone to call back . |
| 10 | I gave her the number and hung up feeling baulked of my escape , almost as if I 'd expected that the thing could be done now , tonight . |
| 11 | ‘ You gave her the number , ’ he says to Mark . |
| 12 | She told her story to an officer she did not know and gave him the number of the Bristol callbox . |
| 13 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |
| 14 | She gave him the number , then put the phone down , crawled into bed and waited . |
| 15 | Their reply gave us the number of the aircraft which Thomas was flying , Beaufort I L4508 , and the names of the other members of his crew . |