Example sentences of "[verb] taxi " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not the kind of station that has taxis waiting outside it , and the two ladies were forced to walk through the crowded streets , now full of people doing their weekend shopping . |
| 2 | He changed taxis twice within three blocks , keeping a careful eye on the black Plymouth sedan which cruised sedately along behind both vehicles . |
| 3 | That , and the fact that Rick 's Cafe , in the Hyatt Regency Hotel , was built more than a dozen years after Bogart 's death , does not prevent taxi drivers from pointing out the building ‘ where the movie was made ’ and indicating the top floor suite ‘ where he wooed Ingrid Bergman ’ . |
| 4 | The current state of Preston 's finances put taxi rides across London among the long list of temptations he would have to put behind him for a while . |
| 5 | The square outside the train station at Asyut was a maelstrom of crowds and buses and shouting taxi drivers . |
| 6 | Accustomed to living and working in the United Kingdom , where it was customary to tip taxi drivers , she felt uncomfortably mean . |
| 7 | Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all . |
| 8 | His passionate onslaught at the 1985 party conference against the Militants of Merseyside ( whom he accused of hiring taxis to hand out redundancy notices to their workers ) appealed to the unions and gave him new public stature . |
| 9 | The Marquis still faces charges of dodging taxi fares , but the case was adjourned after a court heard he was receiving psychiatric treatment . |
| 10 | The Marquis was due to appear at Horseferry Road magistrates on two counts of assaulting policeman , and four of dodging taxi fares . |
| 11 | He still faces four charges of dodging taxi fares of between eleven and 50 pounds . |
| 12 | The Marquis of Blandford has again failed to appear in court on four charges of dodging taxi fares . |
| 13 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
| 14 | Not to be denied , at least a dozen fans hailed waiting taxis and set off in pursuit . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend the Member for Wiltshire , North ( Mr. Needham ) has recently announced changes in the regulations and administrative arrangements governing taxis . |
| 16 | Typically Market Maker the Harvard Securities newsletter , at a time when unemployment figures had reached the 3 1\2 million level , presented this rosy view of the City : " The prospect of stronger cashflow has meant the reintroduction of brandy and cigars after lunch ; Beluga caviar is creeping back onto the menu ; pension fund managers … are starting to hail taxis again , and the other afternoon in Throgmorton Street I actually heard a Blue Button whistling " |
| 17 | They had these cab-drivers in Israel using taxi frequencies to pass on intelligence to Cyprus , and as it came in , so they 'd pass it up the line to the PLO office in Nicosia . |
| 18 | ‘ Take us to our hotel , ’ George and Pat asked taxi driver Markus Wermelskirchen outside a bar in Cologne , where Celtic had been thrashed 0 — 2 in the UEFA Cup . |
| 19 | She became taxi driver , purveyor of fine wines , lender of lurex and drag-hag extraordinaire . |
| 20 | Burglar ordered taxi to take haul |
| 21 | What they gon na do though , tell taxi go away or wait outside . |
| 22 | When the patient is out alone , he may need to use taxis or public transport to get around . |
| 23 | In fact , rather than that vast army of fairly young but experienced , skilled and dedicated men and women , battle-hardened by the '80s boom , quitting to study law , drive taxis or run pubs , they are already in step with the shifting sands . |
| 24 | And er when I first came to the shop , the mo m A lot of them used to come by train and you know taxis or meeting and at the station and and away from Holyhead they used to stop by the shop for fruit . |
| 25 | Perhaps she never realized quite how deep-seated was this need , but shop , as well as factory staff , could not fail to be impressed at the way both she and Bernard always knew their names , asked with interest about their home life and would always try and help if there was a problem by sending taxis , flowers , hot meals or whatever the crisis demanded . |
| 26 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |
| 27 | Some people get taxis everywhere . |
| 28 | He distinguishes between two different types of order , which he calls taxis and cosmos . |
| 29 | The only difference is that they are called taxis . |
| 30 | He not only met them off trains , got taxis , and frequently turned up at theatres to see how they were getting on , but would also dip into one of his baskets and present each Girl with a bar of chocolate . |