Sentence examples for empty petrol from inspiring English sources

The CMA identified seven areas of concern, such as the "full to empty" petrol charge.

This is silly: like boasting that you would prefer to drive on a flat tyre than an empty petrol tank.

The smugglers emerge out of the thick morning fog that hangs low over Nepal's southern plains, riding bicycles and motorbikes loaded with empty petrol drums and gas cylinders.

This was self-inflicted angst: Florida was said to be in reach for Clinton and then needles shuddered as if on an empty petrol gauge and other states started to fall like dominoes.

Mudabir Jaleel, a volunteer in his mid-thirties, made a raft from empty petrol barrels tied together with rope, and he rescued hundreds of people from the most desperate parts of the city at a time when he couldn't reach his sister, whose town, outside Srinagar, was under water.

An hour later they are back, petrol drums filled and empty gas cylinders exchanged for full ones, a disorderly procession doing what Nepal's government has largely failed to do for four months: provide fuel to its citizens.

Zimbabweans have not forgotten the misery of life with the Zim dollar, when shops were empty and petrol was rationed.

At The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 10 September until 22 October Thoralf Knobloch Eerie, empty scenes of petrol stations, swimming pools and indecipherable industrial wastelands, in flat colours and simplified shapes, are this German painter's creepy thing.

The "winter of discontent", in 1978-79, saw a series of massive strikes by everyone from lorry drivers to mortuary workers that left petrol stations empty, rubbish piled up in the streets and, in Liverpool, dead bodies unburied.

In August of 1969, as the Troubles were beginning to boil, he left the pub carrying brown paper bags filled with empty stout bottles material for petrol bombs.

Here, we have one person realising that a flatmate has snuck into their supplies and taken two packets of crisps, followed by the thief emptying 100 litres of petrol over an old wooden barn ("I would aprciate if you calmed down") and then hurling a Molotov directly through a window ("I'd politely request an apology at this point").