This restarts what used to be a healthy and viable repair-shop industry in this country that got blown away in the last couple of decades. ❋ Dennis Santiago (2011)
Most of the script refers to this character only as “the Kid,” but then we see “an enigmatic R on his [repair-shop] uniform.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Timpson's, a British repair-shop chain, says repairs of shoes and watches have jumped in the last few months. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"I think it makes you more passive as an individual," says Matthew Crawford, a former motorcycle repair-shop owner (and postdoctoral fellow in cultural studies) who's writing a book on the demise of mechanical aptitude in America. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Rashaun Gantt, 22, was the repair-shop manager and spent his days working on furniture in the shop behind the showroom. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I saw the world with the strange manias of my new guests: medic, nutritionist, architectural renderer, biochip designer, engineering aeai controlling a host of repair-shop robots. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)
A Hispanic man dressed in a repair-shop jumpsuit with the name GERALDO stitched on the breast pocket came in with several thick, spiral-bound notebooks. ❋ Quinn Dalton (2005)
A repair-shop at the ordnance-depot was set on fire, and a quantity of small-arms and machine-gun ammunition piled outside for transportation to the outer defenses blew up. ❋ Piper, H. Beam (1952)
For example, a brakeman would be a fellow-servant with the conductor and engineer and other persons running on the same train or on other trains belonging to the same company, but he would not be a fellow-servant working in the same line of employment with those who are engaged in the repair-shop of the company. ❋ Various (N/A)
To extricate them from disorder he sought an adjournment, while Fenton, very adroitly preventing such an excursion to the repair-shop, forced the convention to support Woodford or accept Greeley. ❋ DeAlva Stanwood Alexander (N/A)
In particular, the finest of violins lost its splendor of tone if left unplayed, and any violin left in a repair-shop for a month had to be played upon constantly for many days before its living tone came back. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)
A repair-shop at ordnance-depot was set on fire, and a quantity of small-arms and machine-gun ammunition piled outside for transportation to the outer defenses blew up. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
Here was a big repair-shop, with plenty of damaged machines upon which he might display his skill. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
Two months later, when he was helping in the overhauling of a car in the repair-shop, he heard a full-bodied man with a smart English overcoat and a supercilious red face ask curtly of the shop foreman where he could get a "crack shuffer, right away, one that can give the traffic cops something to do for their money." ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
[Patrícia] was really acting bitchy today, was her body in the repair shop?
Sorry this isn't a good time, my body is in the repair shop...
Listen I would love to have sex [in a few days] when my body is not in the repair shop, its a [sticky wicket] right now. ❋ TheFrias (2013)
