Example sentences of "[be] [verb] away at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , Amstrad PCs and PCWs are tucked away at the back with the printers and answering machines . |
| 2 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 3 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 4 | Right , you 've got , they 're hidden away at the moment , I 'll put them in the bag , alright ? |
| 5 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 6 | Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system . |
| 7 | Would be shoved away at the back ! |
| 8 | Meanwhile , specialist retailers like Dixons , an electricals chain , and niche shops like Tie Rack have been paring away at the department stores ' share of the high-street market . |
| 9 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 10 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 11 | CGI 's most visible asset is the Pacbase software engineering product , which is sold around the world — but has n't IBM been hammering away at the software engineering anvil for the past five years at no inconsiderable cost in both money and resources with AD/Cycle … |
| 12 | These carvings have been off display for many years as it was discovered that atmospheric pollution , even within the museum , was eating away at the stone . |
| 13 | I was on my own now , faced with that half-obliterated turn at the V-point of the side gorge where water pouring over the track was eating away at the surface . |
| 14 | Bill was snoring away at the bar . |
| 15 | Invited by Hawke Systems Ltd , Slough , Berkshire , to cast a glance over DEC 's Alpha boxes last week , Unigram.X was turned away at the door when DEC UK officials turned white at the mention of press . |
| 16 | Melissa 's brain was nibbling away at an idea . |
| 17 | Harry watched him fall back and noted that a considerable quantity of blood was coming away at the mouth . |
| 18 | And in fact it shows a lot for human nature because he was chuckling away at the end of it all and he even gave the lads who did the job a tip . |