But, when Tom looked at the broken machinery, he said: "This means a week's delay.
Odd pieces of broken and split machinery were strewn about or propped against the walls.
My innards are stiff and metallic, like broken machinery.
The logging companies pulled out of the town in 1988, leaving broken machinery and severely damaging Ndongo's economy.
"We'll have to take our chance of being blown to France," remarked Tom, as he went over to look at the broken electrical machinery.
He tried to repair the broken machinery but found that he could not, though he spent much of the night over it.
Aside from a few bicycles, there seemed to be only junk - piping, wheels, broken machinery.
The assignment was to take a piece of broken machinery and make it into something else.
The creations, some of which were decorative, others functional, show the potential uses of broken machinery.
Pictures of accidents show broken machinery, or a car crash, and so on.