The two main problems were supply of fuel and the repair of broken-down vehicles. |
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It's melting already, but the traffic's at a crawl and there's a broken-down bus around the corner. |
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We drove north, broken-down trucks littering the road as we travelled up to the summit of the pass through the mountain. |
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The trial judge held that it was unreasonable to keep a guard dog to protect a load of old broken-down scrap motor cars. |
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The incident occurred on the A12 in Essex, and involved a driver hitting a broken-down vehicle stopped at the side of the road. |
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He assured me that as a woman on a broken-down bike on the edge of a major A-road, in the middle of nowhere, I'd be a priority. |
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He told his driver to stop outside a broken-down shack, where an emaciated woman and two young men sat on a porch surrounded by household debris. |
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Traveling for about six hours, crammed into this small, hot, broken-down vehicle, is almost more than I can stand. |
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As the teenagers tentatively waded into the brown muck, a skinny, worn-out alcoholic teetered over from his broken-down pickup. |
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The yards are full of derelict cars, broken-down furniture, sofas with the stuffing bursting out. |
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The husband comes home surprised to see the car, broken-down in the yard. |
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The team converted the town's clinic into a 24-bed hospital, the only such facility in Kholm, and turned a broken-down hotel into a health clinic. |
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Outside armies have toppled Afghanistan's government and installed a new one, but it controls only its broken-down capital and very little of the vast country beyond. |
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Pieces of wood, iron, old clothes and broken-down appliances litter the ground, which was soaking wet when the Guardian visited Nakit on Thursday. |
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It was a journey we made in a broken-down Lada that had no seat belts or windshield wipers. |
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City of York Council said that broken-down fans in the roof had now been fixed, restoring proper ventilation to the baths. |
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Here, instead of verbalizing her emotions, Winslet oozes dread via her broken-down visage, and slight mannerisms. |
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The Caine is finally decommissioned in the fall of 1945, after steaming its broken-down way home from Okinawa. |
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So far Harry's tour of the Caribbean has been a riot of informality with booze, boogies and broken-down boats a-plenty. |
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He expected that the two could discuss rationally my quitting high school to move into a broken-down apartment building with a male of dubious prospects. |
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He said the side of the stadium which had a broken-down security boundary wall had been replaced and that other areas needing attention would also be sorted out. |
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Open ditches line the streets of the neighborhood and run past overgrown lots and broken-down houses as well as freshly whitewashed cottages and one or two brand new trailers. |
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The two sisters continue their conversation about why Stella lives in this broken-down old place, how Blanche looks, and why she has arrived in New Orleans. |
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Holidaymakers had a miracle escape when their coach stayed upright after colliding with a broken-down lorry and plunging into a field near York yesterday. |
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Why is it aliens only abduct backwoods yahoos who have jobs like cutting down trees and live in broken-down trailer parks? |
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I don't want to enter the dark, broken-down rooms because I get this sick feeling in my gut. |
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Our friendly guide awaited us outside the airport, ready to taxi us in a broken-down old skedonk to a town called Hellville. |
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Kate Ebony's sky-blue eyes searched the broken-down cart in the middle of the street with growing despair. |
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Despite this, none of the newer buses has been assigned to the route, so Victoria buses, slow and lumbering old cows, are often broken-down, causing even more frequent delays. |
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Encountering numerous problems along the way, Mr Nichols O'Keefe was at one point forced to stay behind in Rome to fix a broken-down bus, having to fly on later to Damascus. |
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And by the time we came back level with London Bridge station they had towed the broken-down bus out of the way and all the traffic chaos was gone. |
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Even a broken-down dirt digger, bright yellow like a daffodil, was fun to watch as the muddy construction workers tried to get it back into working order. |
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The remainder of the Hawk order was sent in broken-down sub-assemblies and these were put together by the French. |
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An Orkney Towage tug carried out a long-distance tow this week, towing a broken-down Dutch coaster to Invergordon. |
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I wasn't a broken-down jockey, or a book-keeper who'd done a stretch for tickling the peter, like the others. |
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You want to find a few addresses of people who could repair your broken-down boiler, to replace a broken windowpane and to buy curtains. |
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Gollum is a murderer and liar, but he is also a broken-down, pathetic creature, whose torture at the hands of Sauron's minions atoned for many sins. |
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Apparently they stay at an old broken-down house near the closed factory. |
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Daigle enters the complex and joins a procession of shoppers huffing and puffing up the stairs of a broken-down escalator. |
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They looked broken-down to her, appalling. |
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The broken-down, slimy, clammy and cold basement was my refuge from them. |
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A short time later Ripley was seen to get into his pick-up truck bearing a distinctive Native American Indian emblem and used for transporting broken-down coaches. |
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He covered the area from Bellevue to Snoqualmie Pass and spent many cold winter days and nights rescuing stalled vehicles and broken-down big rigs from the mountains. |
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The youthful yearning and hope of the women provides a striking contrast with the broken-down lives of their older serenaders, all of whom sing love songs. |
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Or was I a broken-down college professor living out a spasm of middlescence on the golden coast of Califomia? |
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After lunch, Nana would drag us by our legs, giggling, into the yard, where she would point distrustfully at a broken-down tractor way out in the cornfield. |
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Contestants reveal varying degrees of greed as they search for consumer nirvana, and hopefully avoid zonk prizes of broken-down jalopies and baby goats. |
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