Example sentences of "a taxi " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a taxi driver is robbed by two wealthy women , he seeks revenge , outraged by the unjust crime and the refusal of the police to believe his story . |
| 2 | Gathering speed all the time , I rushed outside and hailed a taxi . |
| 3 | I stumbled out of the hotel and into the middle of the road , narrowly missing being killed by a taxi . |
| 4 | ‘ Stories about him having to get a taxi home are complete nonsense , ’ Berlin said . |
| 5 | I took a taxi home and went to sleep . |
| 6 | This is an edited version of an interview with Carl at his Prestige Talent offices and in the back of a taxi en route to a band 's showcase . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Rachel had taken a taxi to the museum ; she had entered by the back door and exchanged a smile with the doorkeeper . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I take a taxi since my next flight leaves in an hour . |
| 10 | The tall dark girl got off the London train and as she passed through the barrier at Stowerton station she asked the woman collecting tickets where she could get a taxi . |
| 11 | Marie took a taxi to the station on account of her bags being so heavy . |
| 12 | At my age … and I have ordered a taxi … . ’ |
| 13 | Contrasting the brutal murder of a taxi driver with the subsequent execution of the accused , A Short Film About Killing forms the first part of Kieslowski 's Decalogue cycle — ten separate parables which draw thematically from the Ten Commandments and are linked by a common setting , an anonymous Warsaw housing estate . |
| 14 | ‘ Where do you want to go , we 'll drop you in a taxi , ’ I say . |
| 15 | ‘ Where do you want to go , we 'll drop you in a taxi , ’ I say . |
| 16 | ‘ Where do you want to go , we 'll drop you in a taxi , ’ I say . |
| 17 | The train had been forced to brake hard at a level crossing to miss a taxi and one of the wheels had been damaged . |
| 18 | Then a speedy convergence of vehicles from nowhere , one of them a taxi converted into an ambulance . |
| 19 | We could get a limousine at the Beverley Hills hotel but you could n't get a taxi , so everyone learned how to call down from the front desk and order whatever they needed out of necessity . |
| 20 | A packet is guaranteed to get you a taxi driver and other rare commodities — a waiter who discovers that not everything on the menu is off , a booking clerk who finds you a seat . |
| 21 | She took a taxi outside the station and the driver promptly launched into his life history : he had worked hard all his life for one of the big oil companies , inspecting petrol pumps all over Suffolk and had been made redundant in his early fifties with the very minimum of redundancy money . |
| 22 | So now he worked for a taxi firm . |
| 23 | But a taxi driver — his taxi was ah old London cab — swore he 'd beat the train to Kilmarnock , and off we went , hell for leather along the road beside the railway track . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't want to go wasting that on a taxi . |
| 25 | It was after nine o'clock when I reached Valladolid , and I took a taxi to the Hotel Moderno . |
| 26 | Otherwise she might have some little upset , jump into a taxi , and you would find her here when you got home from work . |
| 27 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 28 | I had not , in fact , ordered a taxi . |
| 29 | ‘ Call me a taxi , would you ? ’ |
| 30 | The head waiter went off to order a taxi , looking puzzled . |