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n. gas tank
Usage examples of "petrol tank".
But that wasn't the worst, because the petrol tank had a hole in it.
Snatching up the unconscious Gussy's rifle, he fired after it, aiming for the petrol tank.
As soon as she hears the shot she lets fly at the petrol tank of the truck.
And Abe's voice, whispering in my ear, 'Unless he was dead before the petrol tank caught fire.
He was two hundred and fifty miles away from home with an empty petrol tank and he was completely alone.
I think perhaps one of the bullets must have glanced off the petrol tank and made it leak a bit.
It sits on the petrol tank facing him, the black body in an embrace with his, facing the past over his shoulder, facing the countryside they are flying from, that receding pal.
The limo was swinging into the bend, sliding out across the road to the left, when one of Manolis's shots missed the petrol tank but took out the left-hand rear tyre.
The money hidden in the petrol tank was enough to live on frugally for about four months and, if it became necessary, selling the Honda could extend my sojourn.
But I had let it approach unseen, I had volunteered for the look-out so as not to do what Dalby was doing - lying on his belly over a red hot petrol tank among people with no reason to be friendly.
The petrol tank of the Norton was almost full -enough to get him to London, maybe.
From the car park I heard another 'boom' and saw a flash as a petrol tank exploded.
He got painfully out on to the side of the track and limped to the petrol tank at the rear, pulling his bloodstained handkerchief out of his trouser pocket.