Sentence examples for licence taking from inspiring English sources

You need your licence taking away from you.

PSH: Meaning that there's huge licence taken in the book to get what he wanted.

Michael is arrested for drugs offences, and in 2007 has his driving licence taken away after he is found slumped at the wheel.

T. J. Moorey: Extremes of licence taken to cut tax – personally, I'd get billionaires collared (l, e in VAT; ref. Panama Papers).

She was among the first women in Britain to obtain a pilot's licence, took to car rallying in the 1950s and delighted in travelling at speed, in the air or on land.

The first act of contrition from the convicted rapist Ched Evans since he was released from prison on licence, took him a mere 83 days and two high-profile aborted attempts to sign him by League One clubs.

Even allowing for the licence taken by the forensic artist – whose job, after all is to conjure life into the dead – there is a softness to his eyes and something wry in the set of his mouth.

"We must show these fellows our power"; that was the form of the licence taken out by every churl in spirit who wanted to let his coltish nature loose on a waiter or barber in some German hotel.

Subs are not everyone's cup of tea, but they do know that licence takes an "s" when it is a verb; to judge from the Telegraph pdf download that I "clicked and carried" last week, reporters don't.

"So people were allowed to run ITV companies on the understanding that if they didn't make programmes that informed, educated and entertained, they would have their licence taken away - and one or two did.

One, who was convicted of a sexual offence, has not had his licence taken away.