1. A car is useless without petrol.

2. The petrol tank in our car is empty.

3. The petrol tank suddenly ignited.

4. They chip in for the petrol and food.

5. My car runs on unleaded petrol.

6. High grade petrol is expensive.

7. The raft was buoyed up by empty petrol cans.

8. The petrol in the tank is leaking out.

9. The petrol gauge is still on full.

10. There is a ban on smoking in petrol stations.

11. We're nearly out of petrol.

12. Petrol is becoming more and more expensive.

13. The price of petrol has soared in recent weeks.

14. Does your car use unleaded petrol?

15. He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.

16. Have you used your ration of petrol for this week?

17. Wood, coal, oil(), petrol and gas are all different kinds of fuel.

18. The petrol consumption of the big car as very high.

19. I need a funnel to pour petrol into the tank.

20. Most petrol stations use colour coding for different types of petrol.

21. It's a virtual certainty that petrol will go up in price.

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22. Petrol ignites very easily.

23. You must put some petrol in the car to make it go.

24. Petrol is the most important product of many Middle-East countries.

25. The house is to the right of the petrol station.

26. I had to use a bit of petrol to get the fire alight.

27. A petrol gauge shows the amount of petrol left in a car.

28. It took him only a few minutes to siphon off the petrol and drive away.

29. Don't forget to cap the tank after filling it up with petrol.

30. The government was slow to inform the public about the health hazards of lead in petrol.

1. The petrol tank in our car is empty.

2. The petrol tank suddenly ignited.

3. They chip in for the petrol and food.

4. My car runs on unleaded petrol.

5. High grade petrol is expensive.

6. The petrol in the tank is leaking out.

7. The petrol gauge is still on full.

8. There is a ban on smoking in petrol stations.

9. We're nearly out of petrol.

10. Petrol is becoming more and more expensive.

11. The price of petrol has soared in recent weeks.

12. Does your car use unleaded petrol?

13. He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.

14. It took him only a few minutes to siphon off the petrol and drive away.

15. Have you used your ration of petrol for this week?

16. Wood, coal, oil, petrol and gas are all different kinds of fuel.

17. The petrol consumption of the big car as very high.

18. Don't forget to cap the tank after filling it up with petrol.

19. The government was slow to inform the public about the health hazards of lead in petrol.

20. Most petrol stations use colour coding for different types of petrol.

21. It's a virtual certainty that petrol will go up in price.

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22. Petrol ignites very easily.

23. You must put some petrol in the car to make it go.

24. Petrol is the most important product of many Middle-East countries.

25. The house is to the right of the petrol station.

26. I had to use a bit of petrol to get the fire alight.

27. A petrol gauge shows the amount of petrol left in a car.

28. The car ran out of petrol, and as a further complication I had no money!

29. The raw material for the tyre is a by-product of petrol refining.

30. Before travelling we must ensure the availability of petrol and oil.

31. The car ran out of petrol, and as a further complication I had no money!

32. The rumours of a petrol shortage turned out to be a false alarm.

33. The raw material for the tyre is a by-product of petrol refining.

34. Before travelling we must ensure the availability of petrol and oil.

35. Our supplies of petrol were running short.

36. The government has imposed a price freeze on petrol.

37. The petrol gauge was reading 'full'.

38. Our car was useless for want of petrol.

39. You can use petrol to take out that stain.

40. The government had to ration petrol during the war.

41. My new car really runs away with the petrol.

42. The company produces substitutes for lead in petrol.

43. My car is rather heavy on petrol.

44. The raft was buoyed by empty petrol cans.

45. Most cars run on petrol.

46. All new cars take unleaded petrol.

47. Christ! We're running out of petrol.

48. The petrol feed is blocked.

49. Residents panicked as flaming petrol poured down the street.

50. The van really eats up petrol/gas.

51. The petrol tank is leaking.

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52. Many cars run on petrol which contains lead.

53. Panic buying turned the petrol shortage into a crisis.

54. Will the petrol last till we reach London?

55. We stopped at the services to get petrol.

56. Petrol fumes from car engines poison the atmosphere.

57. A big old car like that eats up petrol.

58. He soaked the cloth with petrol.

59. Our car only runs on unleaded petrol.

60. Can you spare me a few litres of petrol?

31. The engine runs on unleaded petrol.

32. If you drive me up to Edinburgh, we'll go halves on the petrol.

61. Can you look for something to substitute for petrol?

62. The petrol gauge was already at zero.

63. The petrol had nearly all been used up.

64. Nowadays petrol costs too much.

65. The diesel model is noisier than the petrol model.

66. He forgot to reckon in the money on petrol.

67. The economic affairs minister announced limits on petrol sales.

68. The rioters were throwing petrol bombs.

69. High petrol taxes are defensible on ecological grounds.

70. They are fueling a car with petrol.

71. Japanese refiners stopped producing leaded petrol in December 1987.

72. Petrol fumes always make me feel ill.

73. Our difficulties were compounded by shortage of petrol supply.

74. The petrol market is an oligopoly.

75. 10 will cover our petrol for the journey.

76. The Government may have to introduce petrol rationing.

77. Don't stand cans of petrol near the fire.

78. The policy announcement caused panic buying of petrol.

79. The petrol station is around the corner .

80. We've run out of petrol. What a bore!

81. Petrol is a volatile substance.

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82. The car was doused in petrol and set alight.

83. This model is powered by a 1.8-litre petrol engine.

84. Most of motor vehicles run on petrol.

85. The engine runs on unleaded petrol.

86. The air smelled of petrol.

87. I first started cruising in yachts with temperamental petrol engines.

88. The price of petrol these days is an absolute scandal!

89. You get a coupon for every 3 gallons of petrol.

90. That's done it. We've run out of petrol. We'll never be in time for the train now.

91. It would not be easy to cover ten miles on that amount of petrol.

92. A thief ran off with hundreds of pounds yesterday after holding up a petrol station.

93. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.

94. They have put a ceiling on the price of petrol.

95. We drove there and back on one tank of petrol.

96. Bear in mind that petrol stations are scarce in the more remote areas.

97. The petrol will not last out through the whole journey.

98. The Prime Minister yesterday ruled out Government action to hold down petrol prices.

99. The government admitted that there was a petrol shortage, but warned people against panic buying.

100. Legislation will require UK petrol companies to meet an EU specification for petrol.

101. The whole building was sent up in flames when the petrol exploded.

102. Every eventuality is covered, from running out of petrol to needing water.

103. After a long journey, we got to a petrol station at last.

104. Can you smell petrol?

105. The report called for urgent action to reduce lead in petrol.

106. This gauge tells you the amount of petrol you have left/how much petrol you have left.

107. I'm running out of petrol, so I have to stop at the next filling station.

108. Rioters hurled rocks and petrol bombs in clashes with police at the weekend.

109. Thugs poured petrol over a schoolboy and tried to set him alight.

110. The government accused the two companies of fixing petrol prices.

111. There's no petrol,(http:///petrol.html) so it's very difficult to transport goods.

112. Today's vehicles use two kinds of fuel - petrol and diesel.

113. Petrol can be chosen at the flick of a switch.

114. If you drive me up to Edinburgh, we'll go halves on the petrol.

115. Do you remember when petrol was rationed to five gallons a week?

116. We're low on petrol.

117. The use of lead - free petrol is now being phased in.

118. The tax increase will add 4p to a litre of petrol.

119. We had to sluice out the garage to get rid of the smell of petrol.

120. The crowds became violent and threw petrol bombs at the police.

121. Manufacturers are working with new fuels to find one that burns more cleanly than petrol.

122. The petrol is running out/We are running out of petrol.

123. This car eats petrol.

124. The traces of petrol found on his clothing provided the forensic evidence proving that he had started the fire deliberately.

125. Whenever he buys petrol, he puts it on his expense account.

126. They filled up with diesel at the petrol station on their way home.

127. Miles had been dropping heavy hints about the cost of petrol.

128. We ran out of petrol and had to walk to the nearest garage.

129. There was a sudden flare when she threw the petrol onto the fire.

130. This tax would raise petrol prices by about 3.5p per litre.

131. We'd better stop at the garage to fill up, we're nearly out of petrol.

132. I wasn't sure if I'd got quite enough petrol to get me home, but I decided to chance it.

133. The price of petrol is going down/Petrol is going down .

134. He was filling a jerry can with petrol from the pump.

135. She splashed some petrol onto the wood and set fire to it.

136. The price of petrol is coming down/Petrol is coming down in price.

137. The car used a gallon of petrol for the journey.

138. The government has put ten pence on the price of a gallon of petrol.

139. All the petrol pumps have been switched over to show decimal values.

140. Two pence a litre is coming off the price of petrol/gasoline.

141. We'd better first fill the car up with petrol at the petrol station.

142. She put diesel fuel, instead of petrol(sentence dictionary), into the tank causing the motor to seize up.

143. We watched as demonstrators doused a car in/with petrol and set it alight.

144. The price of petrol is going up and down like a Yo-Yo.

145. Motorists will be rationed to thirty litres of petrol a month.

146. When lead is added to petrol, it improves the car's performance.

147. The crowd threw petrol bombs at the police, who responded by donning riot gear.

148. I think the price of the petrol will spiral up.

149. It's true that it's a comfortable car, but it eats up the petrol.

150. petrol do you need?

151. You'd better get petrol here where we're going is the last outpost of civilization.

152. We've run out of petrol. Worse still, we can't get any more until tomorrow.

153. Service stations use petrol as a bait to lure motorists into the restaurants and other facilities.

154. They were cheap and nasty watches, the kind you see on special offer in petrol stations.

155. There are already long queues of vehicles at petrol pumps.

156. The price of petrol will rise by 5p a gallon from tomorrow.

157. I've heard that ten pence a gallon is coming off the price of petrol.

158. They hurled abuse at their victim as they doused him with petrol.

159. The driver stopped the car at the petrol station to refuel.

160. A car will come to a grinding halt if you put water in the petrol tank.

161. We ran out of petrol on the way home, but as luck would have it, we were very near a garage.

162. I need to fill up with petrol before we go.

163. The amount of petrol a car uses is relative to its speed.

164. A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss.

165. The protesters were armed with rocks and petrol bombs.

166. More of the reeking petrol was doused over him.

167. Extracts from both petrol and diesel exhausts contain carcinogens.

168. We have a special petrol allowance for that.

169. The police used armoured vehicles and tear gas to contain the protesters who were armed with rocks and petrol bombs.

170. Several petrol stations and a building society in the town have already installed the equipment.

171. Petrol is nearly nonexistent too: deliveries are made in dray carts.

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172. Another Epworth resident was burned alive a few days earlier when a petrol bomb was thrown into his home.

173. Under an EC directive unleaded petrol must be made available throughout Britain.

174. Does the Land Rover petrol engine have a reputation for inadequate cooling when operated in tropical climates?

175. Londoner Richard Tompkins worked as a petrol pump attendant before starting the stamp company in 1956.

176. What notes were these anyway banged out on a pan, petrol drums forged into spinets and harpsichords?

177. They offer a way to substitute local wood and charcoal for expensive imported diesel and petrol.

178. But ten days later he returned to the same Thornaby service station, filled up with petrol and then paid by cheque.

179. Much oil and petrol is unloaded at docks along the canal, particularly for a petrochemical works at Carrington.

180. At least that was the case in Britain, where the gap between petrol and diesel fuel prices has always been small.

181. When the petrol situation started to worsen earlier this week the site saw a 300 per cent increase in traffic.

182. When the police tried to advance they were bombarded with petrol bombs.

183. The process is slightly different than that for manufacturing catalysts for petrol cars.

184. You have the intention permanently to deprive me of the petrol.

185. She was working as a petrol station cashier when armed robbers threatened her with a knife during a raid.

186. He works for a Peugeot dealership and the company has offered a back-up vehicle with the promise of petrol from other businesses.

187. The petrol station attendant told her to apply for more at the Kommandatur which turned out to be the old town hall.

188. Home Office Ministers fiddled while tyres and a few petrol bombs burned.

189. If Jamie Mitchell filled his rust bucket up with petrol, it'd double the value.

190. Damage to the plant's production capacity immediately affected world oil and petrol prices.

191. While Sapan found the petrol we strolled the boardwalk where ladies sold shells and coral jewellery.

192. The government sets the local price of petrol absurdly low while imposing taxes of over 80% on the company's revenues.

193. The raiders burst into the dining-room and rolled hand grenades along the floor as a petrol bomb was launched outside.

194. Moreover, its big-name client base so far is largely confined to Sainsbury, Gateway and the main petrol retailers.

195. A rising inflationary trend and a persistent fiscal deficit during 1990 were exacerbated by the continuing civil war and rising petrol prices.

196. Low octane petrol is readily available almost everywhere, while paraffin is widely used in the third world.

197. These will be electronically controlled, a technical task far harder on a diesel engine than on its petrol counterpart.

198. Avoid places such as dry cleaners and petrol stations while you are testing out these measures.

199. And Halfords has reported a 500 per cent increase in sales of petrol cans.

200. It was just a brief spell of ownership; the war meant petrol rationing.

201. Many new models of cars can already run on unleaded petrol without any adjustment.

202. In a bizarre twist, the continuing rise in fuel taxes could force the petrol companies themselves to hike prices further.

203. He was conscious of feeling cold in the van and of the unpleasant smell of petrol.

204. Fire investigators believe the living room was doused with petrol and set alight.

205. Concern about slowing demand for petrol and a recent fall in crude prices has pushed Opec towards tough action on supply.

206. Power for the rotary cultivation unit was provided by an air cooled petrol engine mounted on the plough.

207. The government halted the distribution of petrol and the Committees for the Defence of the Republic began distributing arms.

208. The Green Party aims to gain concessions on environmental safeguards for nuclear power and on the ingredients of unleaded petrol.

209. Natural gas provides a viable alternative to petrol and diesel, offering a large cost saving per gallon.

210. Ordinary citizens tolerated corruption when times were good and when the government rewarded them with cheap food, services and petrol.

211. This saving would easily cover the cost of adjusting cars which can not already run on unleaded petrol.

212. A shell scored a direct hit on a petrol tank, and he felt the wave of heat from fifty yards off.

213. It is said that they would increase the cost of petrol by 20p a gallon.

214. It tasted of petrol, mixed with creosote and hair oil.

215. They live as outlaws, raiding the villages and towns for food and clothing, for petrol.

216. The petrol stove was roaring under a steaming kettle, sheltered by three sides of an unfolded carton.

217. Beside the contract of sale of the petrol there was a separate collateral contract relating to the World Cup coins.

218. Like-for-like sales excluding petrol only crept up by 0.4 per cent.

219. Personal tax allowances are expected to be frozen and taxes on petrol, drink and tobacco raised.

220. A number of petrol bombs exploded harmlessly between the protesters and the security forces.

221. Second - the day-to-day expenditure such as food, drink, household goods, newspapers, petrol or bus fares.

222. The budget provided the financial incentive, but much confusion still abounds over the use of unleaded petrol.

223. For example, the new Citroen Xantia diesel costs exactly the same as the 1.6-litre petrol version.

224. Well, I stink of petrol, and he's seen my matches and he knows damn well I don't smoke.

225. Katherine and Sarah were in petrol blue velvet dresses and wore circlets of spring flowers on their heads.

226. Petrol is highly inflammable.

227. But by giving the Government 60 days to cut the price of petrol they have focused ministers' attentions on the issue.

228. They discovered a car battery had been wired to several bottles of petrol.

229. Filling stations are rarities: it behoves car owners to keep a watch on their reserves of petrol.

230. Violence continued into the following afternoon and evening; petrol bombs were thrown and shops looted.

231. These days motorists congregate at petrol stations in a seemingly perpetual hunt for fuel.

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232. Sonia is always cadging lifts home and she never offers any money for petrol.

233. Your 90 2.5 petrol will run perfectly on lead free petrol with no alteration.

234. Oil and gas From September 1989 shortages of petrol and diesel fuel were reported, notably in the Caucasus and northern Siberia.

235. The problem has always been that all of these methods carry much less energy density than petrol, hence less power.

236. The largest contribution to monthly price increases came from motoring costs, including petrol prices.

237. He doused with petrol and inflammable glue 12 tonnes of illegally poached elephant tusks, worth almost ￡2m.

238. Mr Breaux would find some spending cuts but partially replace the energy tax by increasing the tax on petrol.

239. Opposition politicians accused the government of complacency in delaying action to remove lead from petrol.

240. Last summer saw violence at Blackbird Leys as things came to a head ... with petrol bombs and bricks.

241. Putting Labour in charge of reducing unemployment would be like sending a fire fighter to tackle a blaze with his hoses full of petrol.

242. The road bends right then left, before passing a petrol station.

243. Tell Mac to siphon petrol out of his wagon.

244. He left Wilson beside the petrol dump and walked on.