How To Use Ex-directory In A Sentence

  • As I discover when I try to get hold of him before our interview, his production company is ex-directory.
  • They reveal he was being asked to establish home addresses and to find telephone numbers, some ex-directory. The readers' editor on… the Observer and the private investigator
  • `Lucky for you, and for me," said Laura, `that unlike my author cousin, I'm not ex-directory. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • Never give your name or number when you answer the phone, especially if you've got an ex-directory number. KICK BACK
  • As Mike himself points out, if Mr Horgan has chosen not to go ex-directory, even though he's the director of a number of companies, then he is asking for trouble.
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  • It was necessary for Herb to have a private telephone, installed with great discretion, and operating on an ex-directory number. Final Resting Place of The Pen
  • It's a well-known fact that in Knutsford the Fire-Brigade is ex-directory.
  • The telephone number of the pub has also been changed and is now ex-directory.
  • Even BT managed to add to our problems by making our telephone number ex-directory.
  • Bowen said Californians are very privacy conscious, as borne out by the fact that half the people in the state had ex-directory telephone numbers to shield them from telemarketers, another bane of daily life.
  • Being ex-directory and registered with the Telephone Preference Service, I rarely have to deal with annoying sales calls.
  • The increasing number of private households who prefer to go ex-directory poses further problems for outbound telemarketing.
  • We've gone ex-directory because we were receiving so many unwanted calls.
  • If it was an ex-directory telephone number, some of those numbers could have been obtained by ringing round friends or other people and, therefore, an ex-directory telephone number may have been obtained legitimately; we could not say for sure. The readers' editor on… the Observer and the private investigator
  • They heard nothing more until a worrying set of messages was left by somebody called "Lou" on both their mobiles and their ex-directory landline, stating they had to call and quote a reference number in order to receive some very important personal news. Trying to re-address an issue with Barclays
  • I have suffered death threats and I have even had to move my family to a new home and go ex-directory because I was afraid for their lives.
  • That was on my first day in here, and to this day he has yet to explain how he got my home telephone number (I'm ex-directory). Best of Chatterbox: Move, Moyles and man nights
  • Free directory enquiries on the same site gives you the home phone number of any of those people not ex-directory.
  • I tried telephone enquiries, to be told that the number was ex-directory.
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  • The only answer they receive from me is the question, ‘Where did you get this ex-directory number?’
  • I'm ex-directory so I don't know how these people got hold of my address.
  • You can't get any station as they are all ex-directory but I was put through to an Arriva number with no answer.
  • No phone number is listed and if there is one, it is ex-directory.
  • Hopefully, he looked first for Rose Hilaire in the telephone book; no such name, so she must be ex-directory.
  • Looking at these methods, it seems likely that many, but not all, ex-directory numbers could have been obtained by blagging . The readers' editor on… the Observer and the private investigator
  • He said they had told him his mobile phone number, ex-directory landline number and address had been found in records made by Mulcaire that were recovered from the investigator's office in south London. Families of 7/7 victims 'were targets of phone hacking'
  • He had a new telephone installed, with an s ro ex-directory number, billed to Herb's home address in St John's Wood. Final Resting Place of The Pen
  • First, I was surprised to learn that all Aldi store telephone numbers are ex-directory and amazed at the comment from the regional office.
  • We've always been very careful about keeping our home telephone number ex-directory.
  • I have discovered you can't be ex-directory on the internet. Cyberstalking: tackling the 'faceless cowards'
  • She was ex-directory and only a close circle of friends and family had that number. The Priest
  • Eircom were also criticised for proposing to disclose some details of its ex-directory subscribers to other telecom companies.
  • Also, many people choose to be ex-directory - that is, they have taken action for their telephone numbers not to appear in a telephone directory.
  • Well, I have had my phone number changed and I am ex-directory but I am not convinced that certain people might not have connections with BT, so I am not going to say anything.
  • You discover your mother and father have changed their telephone number and have gone ex-directory.

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