strike oil

If they do strike oil, there will be another test well in about a year's time.

You might strike oil with someone I wouldn't have thought of asking about it.

Between 1931 and 1942 he struck oil 38 times.

When you strike oil, you should be able to share.

At last they struck oil, as I believe they call it.

She knew the exact date that he himself had struck oil: July 10, 1868.

She struck oil, as you might put it, when she came to the last one, which was for the year 1962.

He tells a story about a man who started a rumor that they had struck oil in hell.

The fire meant that he had finally struck oil.

The well struck oil at 2558 feet (780 m) but was destroyed when it went wild.

The well would not have struck oil if it had been drilled just 50 feet (15 m) to the south.

Sixteen people were killed last month in the town during clashes between striking oil workers and police.

In May 2006, the first well was drilled into the structure; however, it failed to strike oil.

He has them continue digging, and they strike oil.

The Bland oil well was the first to strike oil in 1913.

Once again, the luck of the capable was with him, for the first lease he bought into struck oil in 1956.

Any country that cuts investment in education better strike oil or start sewing shirts.

The tractor slowly grinds itself into the ground and strikes oil.

None of the wells struck oil, but the other properties were sold at a profit.

He had promised to wear it when he struck oil.

Don't he know how that enlisted man struck oil with a shovel back in the States?

Think of a developing nation that has struck oil with the help of foreign partners.

He struck oil with the first door he opened.

"Look, if you dig any deeper, you're going to strike oil.

The men struck oil on June 23, 1905.