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# Lorry

## Common expressions

* **load / unload** a lorry
* drive a lorry
* lorries carry things
* lorries deliver things
* lorries *overturn*
* a heavy lorry

## Exercise

### Common expressions

1. You need a special license to ***drive*** a lorry in most countries.
2. Fresh bread and milk are ***delivered*** by lorry every morning before the shop opens.
3. ***Loading*** the lorry was hard work. I'm exhausted.
4. The lorry in front of us was ***carrying*** sheep.
5. A lorry carrying coal ***overturned*** on the main road yesterday. It blocked the main road for nearly six hours.

## Note

**Note these expressions:**

* *Heavy lorries can't cross the old bridge. They have to use the tunnel.*
* *The road was closed after a lorry shed its load. (dropped what it was carrying)*
* *A lorry ran into the back of me at the traffic lights. (hit my car at the back)*