Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] away at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 2 | She squirrelled away at the nicotine-laden gum . |
| 3 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 4 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 5 | Faldo still enjoyed a three-stroke cushion , but the pumped-up Australian resembled an executioner as he hacked away at the Open champion 's lead . |
| 6 | Meanwhile he blazed away at the tumbling dots of metal with a grim obsession . |
| 7 | He looked away at the dense thicket where the three hounds were working . |