Sentence examples for petrol left from inspiring English sources

He must surely have had sufficient petrol left in the tank to deliver another spell to torment the opener Masood.

John Faulkner, Labor's leader in the Senate, the upper house of parliament, said he had "no petrol left in the tank".

He told how on the day he launched a safer driving campaign, he had filled up with petrol, left the forecourt and gone straight into a lamp post.

In fact it was a textbook lockout and display of corporate power by Britain's largest private company – a strategic and once publicly owned complex supplying 85% of Scotland's petrol, left to be run on the whim of a billionaire.

"This is like switching off a car engine, but there's still petrol left in the tank, so it could be driven again". The Foreign Office said it welcomed Mr Hill's positive comments and called on North Korea to "work with the IAEA to fulfil their obligations".

Modern life, with its endless demands at work and home, can leave many feeling there is just no more petrol left in the tank.

Pushing off with around 70 other people, they soon ran out of petrol, leaving the boat drifting in open water.

Time for another twist in the desert: a bullet hole in Walt's fuel tank means he's out of petrol, leaving him with one option, to walk.

What that means in practise, according to the OECD, is that these teenagers might "struggle to estimate how much petrol is left in the petrol tank from a sight of the gauge, or not be able to fully understand instructions on a bottle of aspirin".

And petrol never left a pleasing aroma of warm corn fritters behind.

New York, May 2010 A car packed with propane, fireworks and petrol was left in Times Square.