Example sentences of "took a taxi " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a taxi home and went to sleep . |
| 2 | Marie took a taxi to the station on account of her bags being so heavy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was after nine o'clock when I reached Valladolid , and I took a taxi to the Hotel Moderno . |
| 5 | She took a taxi to the family home in Surry Hills and let herself into the house which was unoccupied . |
| 6 | I had been given his address by friends in Britain and now took a taxi to his flat , a couple of miles from the hotel but still in the older part of the city of Buda . |
| 7 | Mr Ian Ralph , 43 , from Gloucestershire , took a taxi , with his wife , Carol , son Robert , 17 , and daughter Jennifer , 14 , from their hotel in Paris . |
| 8 | Bernard and I took a taxi to a hostel . |
| 9 | In the end , we took a taxi and all went up to the mountainous part — a good way into the interior — to a little village called something like Kaloxilos , where Maria 's grandmother lived and had a garden . |
| 10 | Evans took a taxi out to a forest just to get away from every islander asking him how much he liked the place . |
| 11 | She and the wife of another detained paramilitary officer took a taxi shortly afterwards . |
| 12 | Carrying just a handgrip , D'Arcy was able to leave them waiting for their luggage and took a taxi direct to the Champs Elysées . |
| 13 | She later ran out with the baby in a pushchair and took a taxi to the police station where her lover was held . |
| 14 | He took a taxi to the Embassy . |
| 15 | Having met with this problem on my first day , the following morning I wised-up and took a taxi around the harbour , half an hour before sunrise , to approach Farm Cove by way of the delightfully names Woolloomooloo Bay . |
| 16 | She took a taxi home . |
| 17 | They took a taxi to his place , and once inside the cab his hand wandered on to her knee . |
| 18 | He took a taxi to his village . |
| 19 | ‘ How did you know he was waiting for us ? ’ asked Billie as they took a taxi into the centre of London . |
| 20 | From the Gare du Nord she took a taxi , stating her destination as ‘ Dix-sept , Rue de Tivoli ’ . |
| 21 | She booked a seat on it and took a taxi to the terminus . |
| 22 | You took a taxi and I was discovered with a length of picture cord around my neck … ’ |
| 23 | I took a taxi , as you say . |
| 24 | I took a taxi to a hotel , and I wrote the name , ‘ Edward Pinkhammer ’ , in the hotel book . |
| 25 | The instant he finished , Polly slipped through the applauding crowd , grabbed her coat from the cloakroom , and took a taxi home . |
| 26 | From the station he took a taxi straight to Blumenthalstrasse . |
| 27 | We then went by train into the country , and took a taxi to Dr Roylott 's house . |
| 28 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 29 | They took a taxi to the flat , which was in a quiet , imposing block overlooking Bedford Square . |
| 30 | She stayed in the flat , while he took a taxi . |