1. The cars all stopped to let the fire-engine by.

2. The crowd fell back to let the fire-engine through.

3. Kelly green, cobalt blue and fire-engine red.

4. It still wore its fire-engine red livery.

5. It clanged urgently, like a fire-engine dashing towards a disaster, like the ambulance thundering along behind to retrieve the bodies.

6. The fire-engine arrived at the fire.

7. We heard the wailing of fire-engine sirens.

8. The fire-engine roared over me./fire-engine.html

9. Charles is a fireman and he drives a fire-engine.

10. One of them comes tottering up to him, falls, and pitches a red plastic fire-engine at his feet.

11. Like so many other mammals, insects, trees, plants and reptiles (I'm talking fire-engine red tomato frogs and geckos shaped like leaves), the Indri indri is unique to Madagascar.