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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Evans took a taxi out to a forest just to get away from every islander asking him how much he liked the place .
5 ‘ She 's taken a taxi up to Pollensa — Casa Pinar , is n't it ?
6 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 .
7 He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way .
8 Take a taxi down to Athinio — there 's a new quay about two miles south of the Thira Village anchorage . ’
9 Yet when I take a taxi back to the club , the driver tells me that the Indians will be getting it in the neck soon .
10 I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus .
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