Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] away at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She worried away at the problem . |
| 2 | She ran away at the age of 13 . |
| 3 | Using the fork like a pick she chipped away at the soil . |
| 4 | As we poked away at the goulash soup with its lumps of pork and potato and which had been interestingly seasoned with caraway , Ladislav wanted to know my impressions of what I had seen and , in particular , my own attitudes to Marxism . |
| 5 | ‘ While we dig away at the front , ’ I said . |
| 6 | As we drove back into London and towards Toby 's house we worried away at the problem , to such an extent that the issues became more , rather than less , obscure . |
| 7 | James watched me prodding away at the knitting for a while , and I sensed his helplessness . |
| 8 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 9 | By and large , those extra ’ advantages ’ , as the Labour party calls them , for the employee have to be paid for out of the profits of the organisation as a whole and they eat away at the capital that the business would ultimately have available to reinvest in jobs . |
| 10 | Whilst they are here , we hope that they rub away at the image of Birmingham and find its reality . |
| 11 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 12 | She opened the door thankfully , ready with polite expressions of welcome , but they died away at the sight of the tear-stained , pale faces before her . |
| 13 | He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching . |
| 14 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 15 | The leather also still looks good , although I 've notices it wearing away at the top of the ankle seam . |
| 16 | He tinkered away at the mechanism upon his wrist . |
| 17 | He still has a still has a few technical problems with his speeches , his voice is very thin , he falls away at the end of sentences and when he rises to a crescendo his voice is like the distance whine of an aeroplane engine but what he said was exactly what they wanted to hear a return to family life and strong law and order . |
| 18 | And he looked away at the crowd so near to him and felt a stab of real fear . |
| 19 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 20 | He dived away at the double and took himself as far as his long legs would carry him . |