Sentence examples for as a petrol from inspiring English sources

He also supported himself as a petrol attendant, furniture mover and ice-cream man.

The DiesOtto engine, as Daimler has called it, starts as a petrol engine with spark plugs igniting the mixture of fuel and air in its cylinders, and remains as a petrol engine when high performance is needed.

It can switch between operating as a petrol engine, with agility and power, to operating as a diesel, with economy and torque.

These should turn the manufacture of ethanol as a petrol additive from a subsidised boondoggle into an industry that can pay its way.

He never imagined he would leave Dahibah, a Tunisia-Libya border town where he worked with his brothers as a petrol smuggler.

To make the point, scores of stone-throwing youths chanted "people don't bow down, it's time again for revolution" as a petrol bomb set fire to a police officer in the heart of Athens.

An ice-cream can cost twice as much at a petrol station, for example, as when bought as part of a packet of three in a supermarket.Chacun à son goûtRegional tastes can also make a difference, in two ways.

When, after seven years, her marriage ended, she worked in assorted part-time jobs: at a petrol station, as a receptionist and for Birds Eye foods.

When, after seven years, her marriage ended, she worked in assorted part-time jobs: at a petrol station, as a receptionist, for Bird's Eye foods.

Toddington Harper,chief executive of Gridserve the company behind the plans, said he wants to make "using an electric vehicle as straight forward as using a petrol station".

Marchant reminisced about the days he worked as a petrol-pump attendant, a job that doesn't exist any more, but this wasn't a lament for times past, just an interesting and realistic assessment of where we are today.