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    taxi


    taxied


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    1. One or two taxi drivers move in for the kill when they see Russ, John and Khalid exit the terminal


    2. To my surprise, there is a taxi standing outside


    3. I prefer to get a taxi, then I can drink without having to worry about it


    4. ’ He explained, opening the taxi door for me to get in


    5. Our taxi is waiting by the time we get to the front of the house just after one a


    6. The window of my bedroom faces the front of the building so I hear the taxi drive over the gravel and the sound of the two them letting themselves in - judging by the amount of giggling going on, I’d say they have had a good time


    7. ‘Oh no, I heard the taxi on the gravel but nothing else


    8. Leaving the terminal building they found the taxi stand and walked to the top of the queue


    9. "Did youse two not see that there's a bleedin' queue back there?" The taxi driver was small but loud, in his 40's and worried that he might not get paid


    10. Eve and he was waiting on the taxi to arrive that would take his

    11. of the best man, offering a few quid for a taxi in any direction


    12. And although his taxi had a very impressive array of icons, holy pictures, crucifixes and little religious plaques arranged around the windscreen, there was nothing to dispel my fear that at any moment we'd be sailing through the air, over the cliffs and down, down, down into the sea


    13. I began to tell her about Yiannis the taxi driver, Kostas at the hotel, my swim and my singing on the ferry and although she nodded and shook her head at all the appropriate moments, I could tell her mind was elsewhere


    14. was in the taxi when my phone beeped


    15. Graham had to juggle being a taxi for the kids with running the house, poor sod, while his wife recovered … and of course, bumping into Dave yesterday … the service at the Abbey and everything … it’s given me a bit more of an insight into the man


    16. From here she could see canals went into the island that had many of those rowed taxi cabs plying their waters


    17. The lights went out; a gunshot shattered the silence; the taxi driver cursed and jammed the gas pedal to the floor, forcing her the rest of the way into the back seat


    18. She walked outside and groaned at the sky while waiting for a taxi to stop


    19. Roman exited the taxi on the driver’s side, but was stopped short of paying


    20. into a taxi, and was on my way to seat allocation with

    21. Earlier, I’d left Lindy about second in line on the taxi rank


    22. Of course, the address provided by them to the taxi driver


    23. “We’ll talk about that in the taxi,” I said as I took his trolley and


    24. directed it towards the taxi stand


    25. where one can reach there only by bus or taxi


    26. But it continued to taxi out of the hanger


    27. After explaining she had no means of transport the station sent a taxi pod


    28. Doc had been so enthusiastic in the taxi that Jack was beginning to feel that, yes, a good night out was just the tonic he needed to shake him out of his sombre mood


    29. dashed for the taxi


    30. She slipped quietly out of the room and hailed a taxi

    31. But he insisted that they take a taxi and that he would pay


    32. But she had her own car? Why go to the expense of a taxi? Jack had replied, 'Because


    33. In the taxi Jill couldn’t contain her excitement any


    34. He could phone for a Taxi; there were never any to hail


    35. Reilly had been running the taxi squad against one of the best defenses in football for the last two seasons


    36. Consequently, she couldn’t decide if it was Sunday, when Abigail said she was going to come over for her after Bat Mitzvah or Saturday, when she had to get dressed and wait for the taxi to pick her up and take her to the synagogue


    37. ‘Of course’, she thought, ‘either way someone will come, either Abigail or the taxi, so I’ll wear something special as Abigail is involved in both days’


    38. I got a few blocks before the panic left, and I hailed a taxi


    39. Quite a few times we were forced to take a taxi, or more commonly a member of the club took pity of us and drove us to the College


    40. I have just recovered from this embarrassment when a minibus taxi arrived at the road block playing Rasta music which is designed to anger a white policeman

    41. According to the newspapers, Strydom surrendered to a black taxi driver but I heard he was first cornered by the Flying Squad members who wanted to shoot him dead regardless of what he was doing


    42. She descended through deserted corridors to the lobby in search of a telephone to call a taxi so she could leave immediately but, to her surprise, asleep on a sofa in front of the fireplace, she found Herminia with a pillow cradled to her breast


    43. She grabbed it and took off in a taxi leaving me there with that whole mess


    44. “Any suggestions?” I said to a taxi driver who was sitting there watching


    45. “What did you think?” I asked as a taxi took us home


    46. “But I could just as easily have got a taxi,” he said


    47. He also had a list of the car rental companies and taxi cab companies that work out of Washington National Airport


    48. But Mike had tweaked her curiosity with endless boastful stories of his exploits there, so she had asked to be taken and while in a taxi bound for the place, learned from excited conversations that Mike’s source of pride with regard to it was his claim to have had sex with every girl in the place


    49. Every so often a plane would land, and taxi back in, and then figures assisted the man out


    50. The thing was hard to taxi













































    1. Flavio taxied the Albatross to its final resting place on the apron


    2. We taxied out into the morning sunshine


    3. We circled around while he taxied out of our way


    4. When the canopy finally closed, we taxied toward the runway and


    5. I told her he had been caught red handed flying the single-engine plane from which bales of marijuana were tossed while it taxied on the Winslow runway and retrieved by Jenkins’ henchmen to his just purchased station wagon before the plane came to a stop


    6. At the Winslow airport, the bales of MJ that were tossed out along the runway as he taxied to the terminal were picked up and placed into a mint new Dodge station wagon just purchased on credit from his pal, the Mesa owner of Jack Ross Dodge


    7. It taxied to the terminal,


    8. As they taxied in Parker said, "There seemed to be an awful lot of fast stick and rudder movement until we slowed down


    9. They taxied to the end of the dirt strip; turned on to a hacked out clearing; added power to spin the bird around, and shut down midst blowing red dust stirred up by the propeller


    10. Court climbed in front, plugged in, put on his helmet, started the engine, got his wingman checked in, received clearance, and taxied from the revetment

    11. They taxied in behind a Follow-Me to the Maintenance hanger, then shut down and climbed out


    12. It was late in the afternoon when they taxied to the revetment


    13. The twenty airplanes taxied to the arming area, one after the other, twenty engines blowing gas that could tumble a man at 100 feet, struts chattering and walking back and forth under 26 tons of bombs and fuel and airplane


    14. After de-arm, Court Bannister taxied with his hands and forearms resting on the rails beneath the open canopy


    15. watched arm in arm as the plane with its whining engines taxied


    16. The Potters waved happily as the big plane taxied away down the runway


    17. The 707 taxied slowly toward the terminal, almost as if it hesitated to stop there


    18. It wasn't long until the plane taxied to the runway and after


    19. As I stared out the window as we taxied out onto the runway, I felt a sudden sadness at


    20. touched down and taxied into the terminal building

    21. The plane taxied to the end of the runway then accelerated into the sky


    22. The plane made a much better landing than it had in Egypt, as they taxied along the runway Eckhart saw the reporters and told the pilot to taxi over to the hangers and as they passed the gathered press he told him to fire the engines to disperse them


    23. They taxied to the hangar where the blood samples had been taken


    24. In the cold light of the predawn, the med ship landed at the spaceport in accordance with plan and taxied to the hangar where the financial people were to be waiting for them


    25. The med ship landed, and all three ships taxied to the end of the road near the school


    26. and taxied to the hangar where everything had started less than twenty-four hours ago


    27. ” The med ship taxied out with what appeared to be all personnel


    28. It was their usual rendezvous with his livery staff and they were waiting by the terminal as the WWII fighter taxied up to the hangar


    29. Forrest’s private jet taxied to a stop at Newcastle Airport


    30. Cygnus transport taxied into the restricted area at eighteen-

    31. We taxied to


    32. Our plane taxied to that area, where the two-man crew shut down the engines, and an airport


    33. Strangely enough, Ingrid could not see the bombers and transport planes of her command, named ‘Korea Air Task Force’, or KATF, that were supposed to be in Pusan since this morning, as she taxied her P-38NC towards the parking apron reserved for her fighter units


    34. I had two guys waiting for me when the jet landed and taxied to its designated area


    35. Mortally worried about Jo Myers and Ann Baumgartner, she landed, then taxied to her unit’s parking area, immobilizing her plane inside one of the protective earth revetments she had field engineers build for her planes after redeploying to Pusan


    36. By then, the three other aircraft had landed and had taxied to their maintenance apron


    37. The landing was extremely smooth, and Grobut looked inordinately pleased with himself as he taxied the Surveyor Craft to the parking area


    38. In the distance a craft was preparing for take-off and taxied towards the exit gates of the building


    39. At the airfield, Millie’s plane was surrounded by story seekers and reporters as she taxied into the hangar


    40. The plane taxied to a private hangar where we were met by some associates of Veronica’s who immediately started taking the plane apart, looking for listening devices and other stuff that were not supposed to be there, courtesy of the Israelis

    41. The pilot nodded and slowly taxied into wind


    42. Taxied station static


    43. Roger Lloyd was transferred to a waiting ambulance and driven off, as his friends and rescuers taxied towards the end of the runway in the gathering gloom


    44. Asian music wafted through the cabins as the plane taxied down the runway


    45. Thirty minutes later and the plane had landed on time and taxied to the appropriate stand


    46. He then taxied them to the hangar where Samir’s security guards were already lined up, prepared to take him to the palace in the most expeditious manner possible


    47. The plane landed and taxied to the cement apron beside the control shed


    48. Within a few minutes, the jet taxied to the runway, and took off on their two and half hour flight - their destination - a remote and very private ranch near Aspen, Colorado - which Joel was co-owner of


    49. The pilot had started the engine and had taxied the plane to the end of the runway and was now speeding up as it was approaching take off


    50. He deplaned, gathered his luggage and taxied to his pre-arranged accommodations



















    1. Mohammed and John stand at the end of the airstrip while a small commuter aircraft taxis slowly in their direction


    2. Kara closed her eyes … she’d been in London … Doris fussing about taxis … then she’d got on the train at Paddington and arrived some hours later exhilarated by her journey, head stuffed with images of this England so different from her own … Taunton, she’d gone to Taunton


    3. How on earth do you know which ones to press and when? Then the array of dials set into the surface above the steering wheel caught her eye … what did they all mean? She’d been in taxis many times but never in a personal vehicle like this


    4. Hardly anyone walked about and only taxis had a voice


    5. “Flavio lands the 777 and taxis over to the apron here


    6. Nevertheless, the taxis are


    7. Cars, buses and taxis flashed by at thirty or more, honking when they felt their territory was invaded


    8. “Run for it,” Grant instructed as the taxis pulled up


    9. Then they all piled into taxis, Oh the stink!, and headed for a disco, only getting in by the skin of their teeth, having to hide the reeking groom-to-be in their midst and because one of them knew the bouncer


    10. Alongside the train station, there were a number of private cars serving as taxis

    11. “Shit, yeah!” he said pounding Gene’s shoulder and handing him the keys, “you don’t want to mess around with taxis in weather like this! Just bring it by the club anytime tomorrow


    12. A number of cars and two taxis had driven by before the third cab stopped


    13. Dugout canoes that serve as taxis between the islands, sported colorful canopies


    14. Avoiding the several horse-drawn taxis that waited at the station, they walked towards the Rynek Glowny, the famous great square of the city, keeping up the appearance of a poor refugee couple


    15. And if she was with Sierra, it was taxis all the way


    16. Like in any other Chinese big urban centers, visitors can observe women driving taxis and buses


    17. which taxis are registered for business


    18. Two taxis stood there


    19. The first ambulances, French bi-tone horns raucously making pam-paw, pam-paw sounds, threaded traffic of bicycles, pedicabs, and blue and yellow taxis to the carnage


    20. The small, electric taxis were pulling up to the curb to pick up the early morning theater crowd

    21. The tiny water taxis which ferried the crew to the shore charged five cents to pick us up but demanded nothing when we sailors returned broke


    22. RECEPTION FOR TAXIS !NGELA AND 3TEVE DELIBERATELY HELD BACK HOPING TO MISS THE REST OF THE


    23. cleared of the public, some being shovelled into taxis semi comatose and the


    24. They followed a line of cars and taxis to a dead end where there were several bars and shops and market stalls


    25. I walked between two rows of taxis waiting for fares, counting the paving slabs in front of me


    26. With unloading complete the cargo doors close and the craft taxis out of the huge building and out onto the runway


    27. on ahead before all the taxis were taken


    28. no shortage of taxis


    29. one of the taxis, parked with their door opened, and was gone


    30. City transit and taxis flourished

    31. These services were neither government run nor subsidized, but rather flourished as part of the free enterprise system with full-scale bus companies operating in harmony with jitneys and taxis


    32. I always felt mischievous in the back seat of taxis


    33. Looking cautiously through the large windows of the office, she saw that air cars and taxis were starting to arrive with their loads of workers


    34. Going to the first of two taxis waiting in front of the train station, Ingrid bent down and knocked on the side window to attract the attention of the driver, who was reading a newspaper


    35. From then on, it was a nearly non-stop procession as limousines or taxis dropped off their loads of actors, actresses and films directors and producers, most accompanied by their children


    36. The staff cars soon entered the downtown districts and were quickly submerged in the dense traffic of cars, trucks, mopeds, bicycle taxis, hand carts, ox-driven wagons and pedestrians


    37. Casually they took two taxis to Hyde Park where they switched cabs to take them to Harbour Rocks Hotel where they held reservations


    38. drive inner-city school buses during the day and taxis at night in high-crime districts for two years before being allowed to sit for comprehensive exams designed to test their knowledge on all the subjects they’ve studied in their years at engineering and driver schools


    39. That probably meant that the driver of the black van escaped into one of the taxis going to the Charleston Airport


    40. They were on motorbikes, in fake taxis and a number of other

    41. We needed all of them, the taxis were small and the camera cases large


    42. trucks, taxis all marked with a white handkerchief to distinguish them,


    43. enviously the next morning as he piled his cases into three taxis and set


    44. Using taxis, many of them manned by South


    45. in private cars and taxis, whilst the re-


    46. vate cars and taxis increase by 41 per


    47. Although in absolute terms most of the increase in DERV use was in goods vehicles the biggest percentage increases were in light vans and in private cars: the proportion of DERV of all fuel use by cars and taxis rose from 1 per cent to 15 per cent between 1983 to 1997 (see Chart 10


    48. UK petrol consumption is now almost exclusively in cars and taxis (which accounted for 95 per cent in 1998) and light vans (about 4 per cent)


    49. if they would like to share taxis home with other guests, and arranged cabs for those who did


    50. prayer! It had taken seven taxis, all in terrible










































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    Synonyms for "taxi"

    cab hack taxi taxicab taxi-cab tourist car hackney

    "taxi" definitions

    a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money


    travel slowly


    ride in a taxicab