Example sentences of "[verb] a taxi [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A string of personal disasters culminated in a costly court appearance for wrecking a taxi after a night out . |
| 2 | Duncan picked up his bag and caught a taxi to the airport . |
| 3 | And what I need to do I 'll I 'll catch a taxi at my place and I 'd do a copy and then bring it in . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've managed to find a taxi for you , Heaven knows how . |
| 5 | I am just a very confused mortal who has to get up and go to work driving a taxi in the morning . |
| 6 | Officers also want to trace another man who was trying to hire a taxi in the area where the body was found . |
| 7 | She only managed to hail a taxi after fifteen minutes of running , and when she did she was almost afraid that he would not drive her because of her soaked condition , but , after a stream of highly ominous muttering in French , he finally let her in . |
| 8 | They went downstairs together , Rain anxious that Ruby might also want a taxi at Ludgate Circus . |
| 9 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 10 | Val and the others got a taxi to the airport , but as I had my bike to take I had to ride it there . |
| 11 | She then stayed with us , and got a taxi for me to Victoria , which was taking Hastings trains at that time . |
| 12 | So they left the restaurant and Hugh got a taxi for Mrs Tobias before he walked back to his office . |
| 13 | but you know that er our Susan wanted to go down to erm , get her hair done this morning so erm I says to her come up here , we 'll get a taxi from here we 'll go down the hairdressers and shall permission to collect our money , so we got a taxi from here down to erm what they call that street where er that erm oh dear me Street |
| 14 | Ivor Krutch used to drive a taxi in Toronto . |
| 15 | By the time I reached her signature I was half-packed and had called a taxi for Paddington station . |
| 16 | Would you go up to the station and get a taxi for us ? |
| 17 | Well I 'm not get a taxi from the station you know a dump ! |
| 18 | Well he , he 's on himself hanging over his car because he said it 's , it 's , that it was an inconvenience cos they were late for work , he suppose to be getting a taxi into work every day and back , but where 's his proof that he did ? |
| 19 | Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh . |
| 20 | It may be possible to share a taxi with colleagues on a regular basis or arrange a lift home . |
| 21 | Mr Young met Dempsey and MacPherson at a taxi office in Middlesbrough and agreed to share a taxi with them to Hemlington . |
| 22 | I 'll take a taxi into the nearest town and seek alternative accommodation . ’ |
| 23 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 24 | I shall take a taxi to the aerodrome . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So I hailed a taxi outside the motel and just said British Committee and he knew immediately where it was and drove me straight there . ’ |
| 26 | Nathan hailed a taxi on the front steps of the station . |
| 27 | As she hurried to grab a taxi to the hotel she could feel her stomach coiling into knots of dread . |
| 28 | Claudia opened her mouth to say she would call a taxi for herself but one look at the gleam in Roman 's amber eyes changed her mind . |
| 29 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 30 | The day was still dank and moist when I emerged , but I called a taxi from the rank outside , and asked to be taken to the ruins of Holford House , once the home of Mr Harvey-Beaumont . |