Sentence examples for petrol out from inspiring English sources

The firm was founded by Fred Koch, who had a genius for inventing ways of getting more petrol out of each gallon of oil.

On January 17 last year, in this same court, he admitted driving while disqualified and trying to syphon petrol out of somebody else's car.

Make petrol out of plants in a sufficiently clever way and you can drive around with no net emissions of carbon dioxide as well as no net payments to the mad, the bad and the greedy.

When he siphons petrol out of a car at a petrol station, the point is subtly made that this is the equivalent of a hipster picking up a threefa of weed, a clubber racking up coke or speed, or a teenager guzzling down a bottle of Passion Pop.

While the eldest, Elizabeth, tries to keep up morale with boosterish enthusiasm, glowering local boy Calum Ian and his younger brother, Duncan, siphon petrol out of cars to start fires, hide food from the other children and rebel against Elizabeth's leadership.

Footage that was nearly edited out included a scene where Anwar had to siphon petrol out of the family car for the house's generator.

As petrol ran out, Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, ruled out immediate concessions to the protesters.

They seemed less satisfied by his repeated insistence that FEMA's job was just co-ordinating disaster response, not ordering evacuations or handing out petrol.

Unite, which is currently threatening to take petrol tanker drivers out on strike, has donated more than £5m to Labour under Mr Miliband's leadership.

Then, back in his Warwickshire home, he would, some nights, get into his car and just drive away until he ran out petrol.

Tesla, which is also investing in autonomous driving technology, could be a strong contender in such a new market: unlike its older rivals, it would have no legacy business, of factories churning out petrol models, to be disrupted.