Example sentences of "[art] taxi " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone — from the woman who stamps your passport , through the taxi driver , to the hotel receptionist — talks constantly and instinctively about rugby . |
| 2 | The taxi driver speaks no English and I spend a fraught moment or two wondering whether he has understood that I do n't want to go to Keflavik , but after the shorter tour of Reykjavik we arrive . |
| 3 | The girl approached the taxi and said to the driver : |
| 4 | I helped her put her bags into the taxi and then we sort of kissed goodbye . |
| 5 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 6 | The taxi was clattering away and I thought it would fall apart at any moment . |
| 7 | The taxi crossed the Liffey and made its way down O'Connell Street to Government House . |
| 8 | The taxi driver helped him upstairs ; he 'd been tipped most generously . |
| 9 | On the way home in the taxi ( Nigel was indulging them for once — he could n't let Gina use her bike under the circumstances ) he took delight in telling her she had a spot on her backside . |
| 10 | A line of cabs at the taxi rank waited for their drivers to emerge , not as normally from the green cabman 's shelter reeking of cabbage and saveloys , but from the long humped air-raid shelter among the dusty trees . |
| 11 | The taxi cab skidded to a halt with a screech of brakes . |
| 12 | The taxi driver pocketed the note and crashed into first gear . |
| 13 | My friend , the student , could not have begun to agree to that , and of course the taxi driver would not have allowed him to . |
| 14 | Both the taxi driver and the privatizer of the police force failed to get a place on the candidates ' list , and the small number of women did proportionately better than the men . |
| 15 | The taxi driver was a sharp-looking middle-aged man who told me that he was the landlord of the Dove bar in town . |
| 16 | Then I hurried back to the taxi . |
| 17 | To my consternation , I found the taxi was empty . |
| 18 | A sudden cloudburst set the taxi windscreen wipers to work . |
| 19 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 20 | As I refused so soon to repeat the horrors of the afternoon , the taxi ride from the Olympik to Nove Mesto ( the New Town ) was a real treat . |
| 21 | The taxi driver cheered . |
| 22 | Over the past three weeks I have conducted my own scientific poll among the taxi drivers who have taken me to and from Conservative Central Office each day . |
| 23 | Now , after two years of deepening recession and a dearth of tourists , they are moving to the Left , incensed by government proposals to deregulate the taxi trade and give licences to minicab drivers . |
| 24 | And since the motor trade perceives a secondhand diesel as a good buy , there will be a lot of buyers from the taxi and motor trades chasing a finite pool of good cars . |
| 25 | In her flat with Anne , and in the taxi , she had been able to conceal her pain from the older woman . |
| 26 | The taxi was gone . |
| 27 | The taxi driver and the street trader , once tied to debts or rental , can not accumulate sufficient to provide their own capital and can be further exploited . |
| 28 | This will ease traffic flow and communications since passengers will only have to give the name of person they wish to see , and the taxi driver will not only immediately know the destination , and that of his cousins and his workmates . |
| 29 | The taxi driver waited until he was twenty yards away and then shot him . |
| 30 | ‘ Bring nothing with you , ’ she had advised and , laughing uproariously , told me to keep the taxi window up . |