noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bus/train/air/cab fare
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Air fares have shot up by 20%.
cab rank
hail a cab/taxi
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The hotel doorman will hail a cab for you.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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What was hiding a bit of evidence compared to clubbing somebody to death with a black cab ?
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Anyway, I've not been in a black cab in years.
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There were hoots coming from the back of the other black cabs stuck behind me.
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But while the passengers interrogated in London's black cabs may be wholeheartedly Conservative, taxi drivers themselves are wavering.
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Or take the black cab , designed in the 1950s.
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Dozens of black cabs pile down the ramp below Euston.
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A black cab drew in to the pavement a few yards ahead of them.
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You can hail a black cab on the companies.
■ NOUN
driver
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Male cab drivers in Gloucester said running a female only business would give an unfair impression of men.
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Coffee grounds and cab drivers tend to be less precise than computers.
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I told the cab driver to wait and watched Jules as he went up to the house.
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Andy Brown, the gullible foil and friend of Kingfish, and Amos Jones, a salt-of-the-earth cab driver .
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He was always on at me to become a cab driver or something.
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The cab driver obviously was from another country.
fare
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The cab fare was thirty-three dollars.
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By network standards, that is cab fare .
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This girl, this young woman, coming here and asking for the loan of a shilling for a cab fare .
hansom
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The time when you would be relieved by the spectre of a hansom cab in the eerily unpeopled streets.
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Traffic had long left the streets. Hansom cabs had returned to their mews.
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In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab .
rank
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A familiar figure got out of the bus and walked straight to the cab rank .
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McCready waited ten minutes, strolled to the cab rank on Tunistrasse and hailed a cab for Bonn.
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So I goes to the cab rank , and gets up on the box.
ride
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Which was a right drag - Kensal Green was a quid cab ride from the West End which was within my pocket.
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One seemed to think I wanted a cab ride , but I pointed to my car.
■ VERB
call
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He asked whether she would mind calling him a cab and she dangled car keys and said she would drive him herself.
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Haddad muttered and set him upright before he called a cab .
climb
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Without glancing back at the house, he climbed into the cab of the Land Rover.
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She climbed into the cab behind him, and they took off, waving.
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They stood Donald in the back of Tommy's pick-up truck, then they climbed into the cab .
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Blake climbed into the cab , followed by the Doctor.
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I climb into a cab outside 72 Market Street.
drive
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In seven years driving a cab this is the first time I've been done for anything.
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His brother has never driven a cab before either; this was going to be his first day.
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Rex drove the cab with considerable skill.
find
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Now I suppose I shall have to tramp back to Moorgate underground station, before I can find a cab .
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He walked for miles, lost, before he found another cab .
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If he was lucky he'd find a cab there, though at this time of night they weren't frequent.
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Blue gets lucky again and manages to find another cab just seconds later.
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One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance.
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First, a taxi to Euston Station, where he could easily find another cab after a few minutes' delay.
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You stay there with the luggage while I find a cab and leave it around the corner from the garage.
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Walk to Fleet Street, try to find a cab there?
get
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He managed to get the cab in gear and then he was away, really fast.
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When they were finished, Wyatt took one last look around before getting back into the cab .
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Duncan got in the cab and searched for anything that might have been left.
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After that morning it became almost impossible for me to get a cab .
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After my sandwich and a drink, I got a cab to my own office in Whitehall, and rang Seddon.
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We dress carefully, get a cab , and arrive on time.
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Tam carefully opened his door and got out of the cab .
hail
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She raised her hand to hail a cab but the Paris traffic was zooming by at its usual break-neck pace.
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CabCharge customers can phone or hail cabs displaying a distinctive blue decal.
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McCready waited ten minutes, strolled to the cab rank on Tunistrasse and hailed a cab for Bonn.
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He hailed a cab and went to the Montrose.
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He walked quickly, getting three streets clear, then hailed a cab .
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So hail that cab and don't forget the driver won't know the way, he only lives here.
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You can hail a black cab on the companies.
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A couple of minutes later I hailed a cab and was on my way to Heathrow.
jump
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He jumped from the cab seconds before the train slammed into his rig.
sit
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I sat in the cab for half an hour and then this fellow went off.
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Instead we sat silently in the cab as it slowly filled with smoke.
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One of the taxi drivers shot in Castle Street was hit as he sat in his cab .
take
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Which is why we take a cab .
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When it was over, the three of them took a cab across town to an expensive restaurant near the capitol.
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We were too hot to take a cab , so we just sauntered along with the crowds.
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There are several ways we could do it: We could take more cabs .
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The main attraction is one easier-to-use control system taking up less cab space.
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We took a cab to my place.
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At an annual meeting of League clubs, Carey took a cab with his chairman across London.
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Roxanne and Ernie take a cab home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Benji can look like a broken-down old cab horse with a real novice on his back or he can look really smart.
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Drivers are in such close proximity to passengers and there is no grille between them as in black cabs.
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In October 1991 a woman was thrown from the cab of this van on the M40 and died.
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One seemed to think I wanted a cab ride, but I pointed to my car.
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Police recognized Moll and arrested him as a suspect in two grocery store robberies, also involving getaway cabs.
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Rocky O'Rourke, in the cab of his big sixteen wheeler, was parked about twenty yards north of the gates.
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Without glancing back at the house, he climbed into the cab of the Land Rover.