She ran over to write down his license-plate number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incident in the 70th Precinct] Reference

What good would a license-plate number do, after all?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Counterfeit Rockefeller] Reference

“You know the state license-plate colors by year?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Bargain]

She gave the authorities Muhammad's license-plate number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descent Into Evil] Reference

New Haven has also put license-plate readers on tow trucks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get the Feeling You're Being Watched? If You're Driving, You Just Might Be] Reference

"I don't suppose you remember Haddon's license-plate number?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]

Pederson had Roeder's first name and his license-plate number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amy Goodman: Dr. George Tiller Didn't Have to Die] Reference

He didn't plan on accosting the thief; he just wanted a license-plate number.    From Wordnik.com.  [What the Hay!? In Texas, Giant Bales Go Missing] Reference

San Francisco isn't the first city to use the license-plate scanning technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

The state legislature promptly overrode his veto, and the rest is license-plate history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden State of Culture] Reference

I wrote the license-plate number of his SUV in the dust on my dashboard as I pulled away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Case]

Plus, as the nation's capital, Abu Dhabi has first dibs on the choicest license-plate digits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Read My License Plate:] Reference

So our bill of sale, signed-off title and license-plate receipt provide proof of legal transfer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Be Careful When Selling a Car] Reference

I phoned Staff Sergeant Okoro and asked him to run the license-plate number Mrs. Karibi gave us.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Treachery in the Yard'] Reference

A routine license-plate check showed some of them were on a "hot list" of suspected Qaeda operatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

I tagged along a discreet distance behind him and wrote down his license-plate number as he drove away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Sometimes he will stake out a location for days, snapping photos and jotting down license-plate numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Crate Crackdown] Reference

Eric drove a boxy silver SUV, new and expensive, with a license-plate holder from an Oakland dealership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Passing a traffic accident recently, my taxi driver asked me to check out the cars 'license-plate numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yin and Yang of Gambling] Reference

There are also real costs (staffing and technology) involved in video license-plate recognition and billing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Slow Lane] Reference

Registrations were particularly strong in the first week of May, when a new license-plate format was launched.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Car Sales Lifted by Trade-In Incentives] Reference

Traffic is to be halved by limiting cars to driving on alternate days, depending on their license-plate numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Scrambles on Construction,] Reference

Police noted license-plate numbers and asked questions, detaining the group for an hour before allowing it to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zimbabwe Police Confront] Reference

I managed to glean that the driver of the damaged car had chased the culprit and written down my license-plate number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergeant Friday, Where Are You?] Reference

The scans use license-plate recognition technology that feeds the scan into the city's computerized scofflaw database.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

After jotting down the license-plate number, he gave up, trudged back to his car, and began driving home to Water Mill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Counterfeit Rockefeller] Reference

As a first-grader, he wrote down license-plate numbers and analyzed the frequency with which letters and numbers appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Panic Passes Him By] Reference

The witness was suspicious, and gave the license-plate number of the truck to her husband, who turned it over to Saudi police.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kept In The Dark] Reference

D.C. cops were patrolling with the Caprice's New Jersey license-plate number written on Post-It notes stuck on their dashboards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descent Into Evil] Reference

Deploying new technologies (scales, automated license-plate readers, and X-ray devices) to gather intelligence and spot weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Addressing Mexico's Gun Violence One Extradition at a Time] Reference

Now, customers must call in advance with their license-plate numbers and are allowed just two 24-bottle cases of brew per month.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Grail of Ale] Reference

Investigators analyze the images with the help of license-plate readers, environmental sensors and information from police reports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some New York Subway Cameras Now Transmitting In Real Time] Reference

All those expensive cars clogging the roads have given rise to another must-have status symbol: a prestigious license-plate number.    From Wordnik.com.  [Read My License Plate:] Reference

Alarmed party members tried to figure out who had taken him and where, reading off the vehicle's license-plate number to journalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zimbabwe Opposition Figure] Reference

Ms. Rabinovich says she first learned about the incident from a witness who provided her a license-plate number of the lawmaker's sedan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schneiderman, Aide in Car Mishap] Reference

One of his 4-year-old games was to memorize the license-plate numbers of every car on our street -- and we lived on a fairly long street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Junk Mailers: Leave My Son Alone] Reference

The city tapped ShotSpotter along with a host of other technologies, including electronic license-plate readers and surveillance cameras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Put a High-Tech Ear to the Ground] Reference