"All we've been doing is keeping the machinery running, idling, waiting for you to do something with it" he said.

But it is true that whenever we develop machinery to the point where it will support large populations at a high standard of living we are then bound to keep that machinery running, or suffer the consequences.

The steel came in at one end, and the completed ship left from the other with engines installed and sometimes with the machinery running.

Only some machinery running.

Scores of other elements also play small but essential roles in keeping life's machinery running.

In that case, you and Oscar won't need my vote to keep the machinery running, and I've got Tepes set up to function as a mobile command post for Public Information.

In addition to the services for the family - the food, the laundry, the house-cleaning - all this had to be done as well for the three hundred people who kept the machinery running.

There is always some machinery running.

We'd heard the machinery running, do you see?