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    petrol


    1. The demand for electric power, petrol, diesel, gas, wood and manufactured materials is so high that we are forced to destroy the environment to meet the demands of the current population while making the future bleak for the coming generations


    2. and have you seen the price of bloody petrol, bloody


    3. They tumbled from old oil drums, petrol cans and from anything that could hold a growing plant


    4. As long as he had enough cash in his pocket to put petrol in his rather sparkly cabriolet and to fund his passion for angling, he simply didn’t have a care in the world, and so things progressed for nearly two years until his wife made an announcement over breakfast one morning


    5. In the end we settle it that I’ll pay for the lunch and he’ll pay for the petrol


    6. couple of other people who were waiting at a petrol filling station in a


    7. According to the directions given to him by one of the cashiers at the petrol station at the services where is staying he has to hang a left along the old quay and then follow the signs to the hospital


    8. Two kids wired up after a nightclub overdose is worth the shoe leather and the petrol receipts


    9. Suzie, Lian and Sam were hurling petrol bombs at the greenhouse, as Suzie bashed up the Abel Berries with a Baseball Bat


    10. revoir’ - we stopped at a petrol station and I heard her

    11. accidentally filled it with petrol instead of diesel


    12. out the petrol – that’s possible


    13. Fizzicist pulled out more components from the case, a metal thing with cogs and wheels and a large red tank filled with petrol


    14. appeared through the glass door at the other end of the room, carrying a mixture of plastic cider flagons and petrol canisters, two in each hand


    15. Twenty minutes later he had the inflatable unloaded and in the sea, the petrol tank of the 6 hp engine topped up, and his wetsuit and life-jacket stowed aboard


    16. "And while yer at it, yer'll need ter get some petrol, the car's empty


    17. Oh and when yer in the garage getting the petrol, see if they got any o' that chocolate I like, and some


    18. Marcia had welcomed her with a smile, leading the way into a large, comfortable kitchen, where they sat at a table and made small talk - how good the weather was this summer, how the price of petrol was hitting the country’s recovery, all the inconsequential tittle-tattle strangers used when they first meet


    19. then the smell of petrol


    20. “Leave the petrol by the door, I’ll put it in the shed later

    21. The can exploded into chunks, spraying Payne and the Sycler with petrol


    22. As the guys looked back, the Golden Fleece, full of petrol, landed on the road in a huge fireball


    23. People of my age and older will remember Prime Minister James Callaghan uttering these words on his return to the United Kingdom in the midst of a petrol crisis (if that is what it was)


    24. I have oil and petrol, and there is grease to lubricate the bearings before it is driven


    25. Supplies of extra petrol and water were carried in the back of the truck


    26. They didn’t all have a petrol station anyway


    27. Even if one appeared and the place wasn’t deserted, it didn’t necessarily have petrol in stock


    28. Using my strong arms to move the ancient hand-operated pumps, I had to physically push the petrol up from the underground storage tank into the truck, to top up whenever possible


    29. Just the same, there was something in the petrol of the car that is not there anymore after is was turned to gas and burned inside the engine and the same principal applies to our body’s and bones


    30. I accelerated yet again, the speedometer showing almost 70 mph and began to look for somewhere to pull off and ask for help, perhaps a petrol station, restaurant or hotel, although there didn’t seem to be anything

    31. with the backdrop of an overgrown abandoned petrol station in the desert read Process


    32. and none of the petrol stations are open


    33. “The roads and trains are out, and she doesn’t have enough petrol


    34. “Go there with the petrol


    35. her to siphon the petrol from her car


    36. The petrol station had


    37. run out of petrol two cars before hers


    38. Now he catches fish and talks with his friends in the petrol


    39. He had almost perished with them in the blazing car after the petrol lorry in front had lost control through a tyre blowing out, and jackknifed into them, sliding and slithering on the hard packed icy road


    40. My wife was driving her home from school one day when the driver of a petrol lorry lost control because of some mechanical fault and ran into our car

    41. It was a petrol lorry with a burst tyre


    42. “We shouldn’t have run out of petrol


    43. We’re out of petrol


    44. “We’re out of petrol — dent in the tank,” said Troy


    45. She had a double espresso back at the petrol station


    46. It was still bucketing down, but fortunately the motor was situated between the front seats so I checked the fuel line – petrol O


    47. Couscous cooked on a petrol stove with fresh bread and tomatoes and salad, washed down with mint tea and water was followed by a shower out the back under a hose


    48. One-day Rakesh’s motorbike ran out of petrol and, by coincidence, he was near the house of Aakash


    49. He was wondering whether to try the windows, shout, or just sit there, when he smelt petrol


    50. “First thing I need to do is top the car up with petrol so I don’t have to stop for a long time










































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    Synonyms for "petrol"

    gas gasolene gasoline petrol

    "petrol" definitions

    a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines