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

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1 I 'll take a taxi , ’ she told him .
2 I 'll take a taxi into the nearest town and seek alternative accommodation . ’
3 Determined not to look at the brute of a man opposite , Fabia was in the act of deciding that she would ask him nothing in future — not even for a ride back to Mariánské Láznë , she 'd take a taxi sooner — when she was suddenly brought to an abrupt halt .
4 He would then work until approximately 6.00 or 6.30 , and if there was no social or literary event he felt obliged to attend , would take a taxi back to Carlyle Mansions .
5 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 .
6 The other decision she made was that , on the one-per-cent chance that it was n't a fool 's errand she was on , since it was uphill for most of the way and she did n't want to arrive hot and sticky , she would take a taxi up , and walk down .
7 Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive .
8 I shall take a taxi to the aerodrome . ’
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