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The last time she was holding a spanner for him.
"Well if you are right, we sure put a spanner in the works."
And that would really throw a spanner in the works.
No such time spanners enhance our sense of the future.
I hit one with a spanner and he drops dead.
They had to give it a quarter turn you see with a spanner.
She found a spanner and set to work on the bike.
She had, as it were, cast a spanner into the works of his life.
Now, though, a real spanner has been thrown into the works.
That news had certainly thrown a spanner in the works.
I am looking forward to throwing a few of my own spanners into the works.
"But having them here in such numbers could certainly throw a spanner into the works for us."
He picked up the spanner and went to work again without paying any further attention to us.
It would be asking a lot of him to throw a spanner at the moment.
He laid down a spanner and blew on his hands.
"That I might be able to fix it with a spanner."
There is, therefore, the risk that the governments are going to put a spanner in the works.
Let's keep on along the line of finding a spanner."
The last thing we should do, however, is to throw a spanner in the works for road transport.
He could never see an engine without laying a spanner on it.
He wiped the spanner and put it away with his other tools.
"I guess that puts a spanner in the shopping plan."
But you should have seen Spanner and the others.
Leo had eyed the spanner, and put him to work.
Carlos was on the floor doing something intricate with spanners.
But I know it is going to be a wrench.
That happened two minutes after the wrench began its fall.
She came back to the present with an almost physical wrench.
Each time there was a wrench in what felt like my heart.
He happened to have a heavy wrench in his hand.
He'd find the wrench later, when he came back out.
They found the wrench inside the space between the walls!
He brought the wrench down again on the same spot.
The others claimed not to know the working end of a wrench.
What they did, though, was wrench the heart and the spirit out of the team.
Just as slowly, he turned away to begin working with the wrench again.
Maybe the wrench was too big for it to handle.
With a wrench, Winter brought her mind back to the present.
With a wrench, he turned his mind in other directions.
One common type of wrench is shown on the right.
Maybe he came back and found the wrench, before the police ever discovered the body.
George picked up the wrench he'd brought along and looked at it.
"Look at what the large wrench is doing on that work," he said.
It took him six tries before he found the right wrench.
They set the wrench and hammer down for a rest.
She seemed to be recovering from the wrench inside her.
At some point, he threatened his mother with a wrench, and she left for a friend's home.
After all, his return from the dead must have thrown a rather large wrench in their works, too!
As the man came in again, he swung his wrench.
Miller felt the weight of the wrench in his hand.