How To Use Spanner In A Sentence
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I am quite an abrasive player who can offer certain necessary things we need to put a spanner in their works and doubts in their minds.
The Sun
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You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the kitchen, drain at the draincock Use a bath/basin spanner to undo the nut on the tap connector.
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You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner.
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A Some firms have a habit of putting a spanner in the works when changing phone and broadband suppliers.
The Sun
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I moved on to the engine room and took a good look around the engine and workshop area, which still held tools, spanners and hammers!
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I swear I saw this bloke banging one of the wheels of the undercarriage, with a massive adjustable spanner.
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He worked in a garage?hence his nickname "Spanner".
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Looks like this young mechanic's going to put a spanner in the works in Walford.
The Sun
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Taxi drivers at the mercy of drunken passengers on late-night runs sometimes admit to keeping a large spanner under their seat.
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Armed with one of these and an adjustable spanner, there are few things on a bike you can't fix.
Times, Sunday Times
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After exiting from the hatch wearing his breathing apparatus, he released the starboard charge with a heavy spanner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Keeps a good balance thanks to the equal interval fluting of lock pin and hook spanner.
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You can dismantle the preposterous plot with a small spanner.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chief grabbed a spanner wrench and rapped on the Baychimo†™ s hatch three times.
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Clean spanner crabs and break crab into portions.
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We broke open the lock with the help of spanner.
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Pakistan is the 'spanner' in the works -- as General Kayani might say.
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Whole sections of Scottish society have waited for this chance for over 300 years and Wendy is not going to have to try harder than that to throw a spanner in the works.
SNP Running Scared
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He cursed under his breath as the spanner slipped.
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But will an unexpected potential buyer throw a spanner in the works?
The Sun
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I'll need a spanner to change the back wheel.
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I've now got wrenches, spanners, rasps and paint brushes.
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I needed a special spanner and I couldn't beg , steal or borrow one anywhere.
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He's wearing a belt with screwdrivers, drill bits, spanners, hacksaws and nails lodged in every pocket.
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You should then be able to get some purchase on it with a large adjustable spanner, but beware: twist too hard and you can fracture the frame.
Times, Sunday Times
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THIS telly mechanic will put a spanner in the works.
The Sun
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And here's another spanner in the works.
Times, Sunday Times
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On shelves and bookcases around the flat I could see antique spanners, old sextants, shiny brass things, burnished steel telescopes.
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Water bottles are jettisoned on to the bank, rigger nuts squeezed to check they won't rattle (I have a small spanner in case there's a problem).
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An insider said: 'This has thrown a spanner in the works.
The Sun
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My daughter likes making the spanners in my tool kit into some sort of xylophone.
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I know one particular man who actually got a rowing boat and went across in his dinner hour and welded spanners, wedges and hammers to the bulk head and rowed back again.
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Of course, I'm assuming they'll throw spanners in the works along the way.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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The most recent letter from Global Claims threw another spanner in the works.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there may be a spanner in the works.
Times, Sunday Times
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A failure to ratify by Slovakia would throw a spanner in the works, since the arrangement requires unanimous ratification.
Times, Sunday Times
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They hover on the brink of existence in a flat-pack limbo until I can find my adjustable spanner.
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The spanner is used to tighten the hexagonal nut.
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She was wearing vaguely unbuttoned overalls, carrying a spanner and had oil streaks on her face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some kind of spanner or leatherman or something will be needed to unscrew the sparkplugs.
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Looking for old spanners and fondue sets isn't the main reason for my contemplative melancholia.
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A feather in his cap or a spanner in the works?
Times, Sunday Times
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I needed a special spanner and I couldn't beg , steal or borrow one anywhere.
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He changed the spanner for one the correct size and tightened the nut.
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This throws a real spanner in the works.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bad result is sure to throw a spanner in the works.
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The sun, too, may throw a spanner in the works.
The Sun
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A source said: 'This has thrown a real spanner in the works.
The Sun
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Don't use jointing compound unless recommended Tighten the compression joints using a spanner at either end.
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Three young men from Anjanvara wield spanners and engine grease with thinly-veiled pride, mastering a new set of skills.
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The government tried to throw a spanner in the works by introducing charges on trusts but clients of ours still think it is worthwhile.
Times, Sunday Times
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I needed a special spanner and I couldn't beg , steal or borrow one anywhere.
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He also meditates on the long menu of Irish terms for drunkenness: "spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed.
In Search of the Classic Irish Pub
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Take your spanner, and tighten the nut.
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Now he is dreading a last-minute call from any of his players throwing another spanner into the works.
The Sun
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He is friendly with them and once managed to mend a leaking pipe for them with his spanner.
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No, he's the sort of chap just as likely to put a spanner in the works.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no want of effort and application but little thought is given to trying a spanner.
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Denman went down, held a jubilant conversation with Florrie through the keyhole, and returned to the deck, where, with a short spanner in his hand -- replevined from the engine room for use in case of an emergency -- he spent the night on watch; for, with all lights out, a watch was necessary.
The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility
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I reached into the door pocket and pulled out the heavy wheel nut spanner.
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He collects some other tools, a hammer, nails, spanners, screwdrivers and a few more saw-blades, and slots them into the zippered pouches on his backpack.
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Among the huge haul of tools taken from Mr Walker's farm were two chainsaws, jacks, grinders and spanners.
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That would throw a spanner in the works of what is possibly the most promising structural growth story in the world today.
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THE problem with the post union should have been resolved weeks ago but just as there are signs of progress, people put a spanner in the works.
The Sun
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The spanner is different, according to the structure may divide into two big kinds, namely manual screw spanner and box spanner.
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The proposal would not only make execution-only services uneconomic, it would also throw a spanner in the works in respect of the provision of investment services over the internet.
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Stalls sold everything from dried lizards and birds' claws to spanners, nails and toothpaste.
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The plumber screwed up the tap by means of a spanner.
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I needed a special spanner and I couldn't beg , steal or borrow one anywhere.
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Equipped with four different electromotive spanner, can be in the sleeve size 3 seconds easily remove or tighten various kinds of car wheels setscrew 1.
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Avoid the things he needs - like a new spanner or woollen jumper - and impress him with imagination and flair.
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Max looked up from the spanner he was calibrating with a small tool.
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Unless you have pretty particular interests you're probably not going to have much use for a magnifying glass, a spanner or a miniature jig-saw.
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(The torque spanner is used on high-strength bolted and screwed joints which require a specific torque or where there are several bolted or screwed joints on one component part and their prestressing is the same.) 17.
1. Objectives and Contents of the Practical Training in the Techniques of Making Threaded Joints
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He took a spanner from his tool box and tightened up the bolts on the gate.
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He worked in a garage?hence his nickname "Spanner".
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He also meditates on the long menu of Irish terms for drunkenness: "spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed.
In Search of the Classic Irish Pub
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A bad result is sure to throw a spanner in the works.
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Looking for old spanners and fondue sets isn't the main reason for my contemplative melancholia.
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A bad result is sure to throw a spanner in the works.
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He changed the spanner for one clearly the wrong size and tried vainly to tighten the nut again.
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Even so, their intervention is a big a spanner in the Compaq takeover works.
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Although Dave called the room into which we stepped a kitchen, it actually more closely resembled a workshop, containing more spanners and screwdrivers than knives and forks.
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Tough, pragmatic and putting a spanner in the works of the opposition machinery.
The Sun
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She was wearing vaguely unbuttoned overalls, carrying a spanner and had oil streaks on her face.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact all his mechanics had Stars and Stripes kit - they were truly the star-spangled spanners this weekend.
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I'm so worried my night with this guy will put a spanner in the works when we come face to face.
The Sun
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The positioning of a small sewage treatment plant threw a spanner in the works as councillors at the development and planning meeting called for it to be resited away from residential properties.
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I'm hoping my book may throw a spanner into the works.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it's about going with the flow - if you try to force a manoeuvre it can really put a spanner in the works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Take your spanner, and tighten the nut.
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You'll need a spanner to loosen that bolt.
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You can use a spanner to loosen the nut.
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The funding for the project was withdrawn so that really threw a spanner in the works.
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I needed a special spanner and I couldn't beg , steal or borrow one anywhere.
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He changed the spanner for one clearly the wrong size and tried vainly to tighten the nut again.
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Do I care what kind of spanner my car mechanic uses?
British Blogs
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Success can put a spanner in a writer's works.
Times, Sunday Times
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Could you come down here for a minute, he called over his shoulder as he finished up and replaced a spanner to its outlined space on the wall above his workbench.
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The cabbie starts his rickety old taxi with a knock of a spanner.
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Much as they are needed, even desperately needed, the cussed nature of populist politics may throw a spanner in the works.
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Don't use jointing compound unless recommended Tighten the compression joints using a spanner at either end.
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A further one in 10 stated that a "spanner" was a term used to describe someone of limited intelligence.
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The main risk is another regulatory spanner.
Times, Sunday Times
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She fished in her tool box for the right spanner.
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They found little or no bacteria, but they did find glucan, which is a marker for fungi, at some of the 15 sites, especially on the fabric gap spanners that span the distance between handrails on the truss.
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Among the huge haul of tools taken from Mr Walker's farm were two chainsaws, jacks, grinders and spanners.
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He's wearing a belt with screwdrivers, drill bits, spanners, hacksaws and nails lodged in every pocket.
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She fished in her tool box for the right spanner.
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I used to race Minis at club level back when Minis could be fixed with three different spanners and a screwdriver.
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You can hire the correct immersion heater spanner, but their cheapness probably makes buying one a better answer.
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I have tried, and each time I try I throw a spanner and that's that.
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A feather in his cap or a spanner in the works?
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