Example sentences of "[conj] take a taxi " in BNC.

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1 I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi .
2 Or take a taxi from outside the railway station .
3 So if you 're planning on running home to Mummy before tomorrow morning , you 'll have to phone Daddy to call for you , or take a taxi . "
4 Carrying just a handgrip , D'Arcy was able to leave them waiting for their luggage and took a taxi direct to the Champs Elysées .
5 She later ran out with the baby in a pushchair and took a taxi to the police station where her lover was held .
6 Having met with this problem on my first day , the following morning I wised-up and took a taxi around the harbour , half an hour before sunrise , to approach Farm Cove by way of the delightfully names Woolloomooloo Bay .
7 She booked a seat on it and took a taxi to the terminus .
8 The instant he finished , Polly slipped through the applauding crowd , grabbed her coat from the cloakroom , and took a taxi home .
9 We then went by train into the country , and took a taxi to Dr Roylott 's house .
10 Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs .
11 Linley had left the restaurant at 3 p.m. and taken a taxi to Fleet Street , a journey of no more than ten minutes even on a busy Friday afternoon .
12 Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie 's flat .
13 If you were to fly to Athens for the first time and take a taxi to an address in the city , you would be unable to assess whether the route was circuitous , or the baggage charge was normal .
14 She could not tell whether he also meant he would not be at the flat long , only long enough to collect his bag and take a taxi to whichever friend 's spare room he had negotiated to borrow .
15 I 'll get the bus and take a taxi from the air terminal .
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