noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a petrol bombBritish English (= containing petrol)
▪ A petrol bomb was hurled at police as they chased the car.
a petrol/diesel engine
▪ The van has a 2.5 litre diesel engine.
petrol bomb
petrol pump/gas pump (=for putting petrol into cars)
petrol station
petrol stationBrE,gas station American English (= where petrol is sold)
petrol tankBrE,gas tank American English
run on electricity/gas/petrol etc (=get its power from electricity etc)
▪ Most cars run on unleaded fuel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cheap
▪ With mounting evidence of global warming the last thing this planet needs is cheaper petrol.
diesel
▪ Thus the company is uniquely placed to sum up current interest in alternative fuels for diesel and petrol engines.
▪ The cleaned and cooled gas can be used in diesel or petrol engines.
high
▪ It will take many years to phase out existing cars that run on high octane leaded petrol.
▪ There are two ways of producing high octane lead-free petrol.
▪ But remember that these cars accrue, and can withstand, significantly higher mileages than petrol cars, 50-90,000 being the norm.
leaded
▪ Volcanoes, cigarettes, forest fires, stubble burning, leaded petrol, combustion plants and incinerators are all contributors.
▪ As a first step, the sale of leaded petrol will be banned from January 1992.
▪ What is the situation with regard to leaded petrol?
▪ The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol.
▪ Some people say that once the car is adjusted I should alternate between leaded and unleaded petrol?
▪ It will take many years to phase out existing cars that run on high octane leaded petrol.
low
▪ Mr Brown had promised a 2p cut from this month in the price of ultra-#low sulphur petrol.
▪ By now I was low on petrol and flew back to Takali after Thacker hit the water.
unleaded
▪ This saving would easily cover the cost of adjusting cars which can not already run on unleaded petrol.
▪ The budget provided the financial incentive, but much confusion still abounds over the use of unleaded petrol.
▪ Was unleaded petrol sold in Oxford in 1983?
▪ Total unleaded petrol rose from a market share of 7.7 percent in January 1987 to 32 percent by the beginning of 1991.
▪ The Green Party aims to gain concessions on environmental safeguards for nuclear power and on the ingredients of unleaded petrol.
▪ There is more to being green than recycling your newspapers and using unleaded petrol.
▪ Many new models of cars can already run on unleaded petrol without any adjustment.
▪ All models run on unleaded petrol.
■ NOUN
bomb
▪ Last summer saw violence at Blackbird Leys as things came to a head ... with petrol bombs and bricks.
▪ Home Office Ministers fiddled while tyres and a few petrol bombs burned.
▪ The raiders burst into the dining-room and rolled hand grenades along the floor as a petrol bomb was launched outside.
▪ A number of petrol bombs exploded harmlessly between the protesters and the security forces.
▪ Another Epworth resident was burned alive a few days earlier when a petrol bomb was thrown into his home.
▪ The police used armoured vehicles and tear gas to contain the protesters who were armed with rocks and petrol bombs.
▪ Violence continued into the following afternoon and evening; petrol bombs were thrown and shops looted.
car
▪ The process is slightly different than that for manufacturing catalysts for petrol cars.
▪ Not that petrol car owners in Britain have much to rejoice about.
▪ With nine petrol cars being sold to every one diesel, scarcity keeps resale prices up.
▪ But remember that these cars accrue, and can withstand, significantly higher mileages than petrol cars, 50-90,000 being the norm.
▪ Seers now say that the petrol car will eventually be replaced by a battery-powered version.
engine
▪ It uses the familiar 1. litre petrol engine, and comes in three or five-door versions.
▪ This might not seem small in petrol engine terms but for a diesel it is quite dinky.
▪ Power for the rotary cultivation unit was provided by an air cooled petrol engine mounted on the plough.
▪ Clios fitted with petrol engines do not require their first service until 6,000 miles.
▪ But instead of scooting, the rider stands on two side plates, while a small petrol engine drives the rear wheel.
▪ I own a 109 Safari and it is ex-military with the two and a quarter petrol engine.
fumes
▪ She has to be the biggest money-grabber this side of Gordon Brown crazed on petrol fumes.
▪ I am worried about possible toxic effects, from the petrol fumes, and the asbestos.
▪ It appears he lit a cigarette which ignited the petrol fumes.
price
▪ As motorists have found to their cost, the result has been a sharp increase in petrol prices at the pump.
▪ The largest contribution to monthly price increases came from motoring costs, including petrol prices.
▪ Ironically that is also the reason behind yesterday's good news for motorists that petrol prices are to drop.
▪ Time allowed 02:26 Read in studio Small garages in the region could be forced out of business in a new petrol price war.
▪ All political parties accept that long-term increases in petrol prices are not only environmentally necessary but unavoidable.
▪ A rising inflationary trend and a persistent fiscal deficit during 1990 were exacerbated by the continuing civil war and rising petrol prices.
▪ He claimed that the government was forcing Petrobrás to run at a loss in order to keep petrol prices and thus inflation down.
▪ On Dec. 5 the government's Energy Regulatory Board had announced increases in petrol prices of between 50 and 80 percent.
pump
▪ Londoner Richard Tompkins worked as a petrol pump attendant before starting the stamp company in 1956.
▪ It was normal for large houses to carry their own petrol pumps and fire appliances.
▪ An on/off switch on the dashboard controls the petrol pump, and a hand-operated gas-valve regulates the gas flow.
▪ Once the gas flow is adequate, the petrol pump is switched off.
▪ On a hill, the petrol pump is switched on and the gas valve is switched off.
▪ Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female, though it took a few seconds to realise it.
▪ Many want to see the return of petrol pump attendants because of the difficulties with self-self service.
▪ What did the robot say to the petrol pump?
station
▪ But she started again after a robber held a knife to her as she worked in a petrol station.
▪ The petrol station attendant told her to apply for more at the Kommandatur which turned out to be the old town hall.
▪ The petrol station at Shiel Bridge has a good range of groceries.
▪ Suppose also that there are two groups of petrol stations.
▪ David was jailed for four years after robbing a petrol station to pay for his drug habit.
▪ I drove back to the nearest petrol station in a seriously bad mood and filled up.
▪ I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station.
▪ These days motorists congregate at petrol stations in a seemingly perpetual hunt for fuel.
tank
▪ Here, the turtle-back fairings over the 65-gallon petrol tanks can be clearly seen.
▪ It sounds mean as hell; you can feel the engine resonating through the petrol tank when the bike is stationary.
▪ Adam crawled out of the Audi, grabbed Billie and ran with her before the petrol tanks exploded.
▪ The tyres went and the petrol tank ignited.
▪ He refilled the petrol tank from Mario's jerrican, and after another ten minutes or so was ready to drive on.
▪ Can't you put sugar in his petrol tank or something?
▪ The reports state its petrol tank had been holed.
▪ The survivors of Lampard's patrol ate dates, sipped water, cleaned weapons, filled petrol tanks and treated the wounded.
tanker
▪ Some petrol tanker drivers have refused to cross picket lines.
▪ The petrol tanker road crews responded to a man and the dockers in Belfast and Larne equally well.
tax
▪ An environment-minded government may increase petrol tax.
▪ The bluntest way to encourage this would be to increase petrol tax.
▪ The administration would hate this, largely because the petrol tax is so unpopular in the open spaces of the West.
▪ The government is also reported to be planning an increase in petrol tax later this year.
▪ But all car-drivers pay petrol taxes, while only half use the motorways.
▪ A proposition to double the state's 9 cent per gallon petrol tax to increase expenditure on roads was accepted.
■ VERB
buy
▪ We had a purse with some pesetas in, so we could buy the petrol to get us down to her.
▪ Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle.
▪ Every time we buy petrol we are faced with an array of sweets and chocolates as we go to pay for it.
▪ They buy newspapers and petrol for their cars, but they don't shop for them.
▪ At the garage where he bought petrol they offered him a complimentary sherry glass because he had bought more than thirty litres.
▪ The first is buying soft mints when I buy petrol.
▪ Mr Bevan said Allen hired the two youths by promising them £100 and giving them an extra £10 to buy petrol.
fill
▪ Answer: fill it up with petrol.
▪ Should I fill up with petrol just in case?
▪ The prize, though, goes to the mite who offered to watch my car as I was filling up with petrol.
▪ She fills up with petrol on the ring road.
▪ Liu Xiuqin allegedly handed over the bottles to fill with petrol.
▪ Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning.
▪ A driver had his tank filled with petrol.
increase
▪ An environment-minded government may increase petrol tax.
▪ It is said that they would increase the cost of petrol by 20p a gallon.
▪ The bluntest way to encourage this would be to increase petrol tax.
▪ Mr Breaux would find some spending cuts but partially replace the energy tax by increasing the tax on petrol.
pay
▪ Car users pay heavy duties on petrol and must pay licence fees for running a car.
▪ You don't have to pay for parking or petrol and it's much quicker than walking.
▪ But all car-drivers pay petrol taxes, while only half use the motorways.
▪ Of course, the motorist will pay for lead-free petrol in the long run.
▪ The only running cost you will have to pay is for petrol.
▪ He is also charged with driving away from a filling station without paying for petrol.
run
▪ At Carcassonne she found she was running out of her precious petrol coupons.
▪ This saving would easily cover the cost of adjusting cars which can not already run on unleaded petrol.
▪ Some stoves are now designed to run on unleaded petrol.
▪ Many new models of cars can already run on unleaded petrol without any adjustment.
▪ He forgot to switch over fuel tanks, so he thought he ran out of petrol when he didn't.
▪ First she runs out of petrol.
▪ All models run on unleaded petrol.
▪ It happened one day when I ran out of petrol and this girl came along.
sell
▪ Jet, which already sells cut-price petrol, will knock 12p off a gallon of unleaded, reducing it to £199.6p.
▪ The defendants were held to have been negligent in selling the child the petrol but the child was not contributorily negligent.
throw
▪ After 10 years of torment, Kiranjit Ahluwalia, 36, threw petrol over sleeping husband Deepak and set him on fire.
▪ Hartlepool magistrates heard that he allegedly threw a petrol bomb into the rear of the premises.
▪ He was sentenced to seven years for throwing a petrol bomb.
▪ Youths set vehicles on fire, and threw petrol bombs, blast bombs, bricks and bottles.
use
▪ You can use petrol, but that's not particularly safe or healthy and it tends to leave an oily film.
▪ There is more to being green than recycling your newspapers and using unleaded petrol.
▪ The regulations are forcing people to stop using petrol as the major vehicle fuel.
▪ What about other machines using petrol fuel?
▪ The cleaned and cooled gas can be used in diesel or petrol engines.
▪ And not everyone who has a lawn uses a petrol mower!
▪ I have been using unleaded petrol in my Ninety 2.5 litre.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At Carcassonne she found she was running out of her precious petrol coupons.
▪ He was conscious of feeling cold in the van and of the unpleasant smell of petrol.
▪ It was seven miles away and petrol was still rationed.
▪ Police said they were investigating the incident as a petrol bombing.
▪ The defendants were held to have been negligent in selling the child the petrol but the child was not contributorily negligent.
▪ The reaction was serious rioting and attacks on the police involving petrol bombs, bricks, and stones.
▪ The stench of petrol urged them on.