Example sentences of "in a taxi " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where do you want to go , we 'll drop you in a taxi , ’ I say . |
| 2 | ‘ Where do you want to go , we 'll drop you in a taxi , ’ I say . |
| 3 | ‘ Where do you want to go , we 'll drop you in a taxi , ’ I say . |
| 4 | I had been to see it years before in a taxi from Roscrea , and had been greatly impressed by the poignant air of haunted melancholy that hung over the ruins . |
| 5 | Outside the church , I found a taxi rank , jumped in a taxi and asked to be taken to the village that gave County Louth its name . |
| 6 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 7 | He denied fondling Miss Van Den Berghen at the party and in a taxi later . |
| 8 | With the help of the theatre 's drum-revolve and back projections , we are able to watch Eliza ride through London in a taxi to her slum in Drury Lane , cut with cinematic fluency to the hilarious scene in which the housekeeper Mrs Pearce forces her whimpering charge to take a bath for the first time , and enjoy the full splendour of the embassy ball , complete with marble staircases and palm court orchestra . |
| 9 | Rattling to the airport in a taxi after despairing of the scheduled bus , I had felt a free-floating grumpiness , a symptom of the thin layers of anxiety which I had found coat the start of any journey in Latin America . |
| 10 | Yet when Luzma , my sympathetic travel agent , took me in a taxi down to contrabando in Cuzco , it had not been to buy a camera . |
| 11 | He arranged for Marcus to see a dentist , and took him there in a taxi . |
| 12 | You waited at the entrance to Terminal One , saw me arrive in a taxi . |
| 13 | He travelled to Oldham in a taxi with the Huddersfield director Dick Parker . |
| 14 | For example , you will allow your teenage daughter to stay out after twelve on a Saturday night , if she goes with friends you know and comes home in a taxi , and never alone . |
| 15 | Had to take him home in a taxi and we had to book out for him . |
| 16 | ‘ What on earth are you doing coming home in a taxi ? ’ |
| 17 | For the first time in her life she felt she had outdone Paula , who had never , ever , arrived home in a taxi ! |
| 18 | I came to in a taxi , my painful head on a woman 's lap . |
| 19 | I thanked him and hung up , and with considerable contentment took my two bags in a taxi to Union Station . |
| 20 | He immediately rang the Oxford Mission sisters , and by the time we reached them in a taxi they had beds prepared and a doctor called , and in two days Mig was well again . |
| 21 | The director , the crew and I stayed at Stromness on the Orkney mainland , in wartime too far to visit because of being at short notice for steam ; and it was an odd feeling crossing over to Hoy in the ferry , then motoring in a taxi down its eastern side to the once familiar anchorage of Gutter Sound . |
| 22 | He was shot five times in a taxi cab in June , two months after being beaten by thugs with baseball bats . |
| 23 | He was caught with his clothes in tatters trying to flee in a taxi and owned up to police . |
| 24 | On Thursday last week , wheelchair-bound Linda Eldisogi , 41 , who lost a leg in an accident several years ago , arrived at the Daily Mirror in a taxi . |
| 25 | He surely wo n't come out this far in a taxi … ’ |
| 26 | By the time he had got the train to Exeter St David 's , its first stop , people had begun arriving , notably his father in a taxi . |
| 27 | In Ease and Endurance , the continuation of the autobiography which Boulestin wrote in French under the title of A Londres Naguère and which was published after his death in a somewhat harum-scarum translation by Robin Adair ( at one point Adair has Boulestin exploring the Cecil Hotel in a taxi ) , he tells how the place was crammed night after night with customers from the Savoy , Ritz and Carlton belt , stage stars , artists , writers , royalty and High Bohemia . |
| 28 | ‘ I meant in a taxi . ’ |
| 29 | Driving round Piccadilly Circus in a taxi he would screech out of the window , ‘ I 'm the Queen of England but I ca n't remember which . ’ |
| 30 | The offenders were passengers in a taxi late at night . |