Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] away at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahead children lay like bundles of clothing on the edge of the road , only rolling away at the last hoot . |
| 2 | American and allied aircraft are already pounding away at the fixed and mobile missile launchers concealed in the desert of south-western Iraq . |
| 3 | The power axe , clenched in his mailed fist , still hewed away at the same small area in front of him , but for the life of him he could n't push himself into the space it liquefied , nor could he shift the weapon to left or to right , so firmly was his arm held by the hydra . |
| 4 | His scams and cons , however , are not always abortive and the profit he makes is not always snatched away at the last minute . |
| 5 | The walls have turned a gruesome red-brown from the urine which has also eaten away at the wooden structure of one of the portals . |
| 6 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 7 | Maybe he 'll go to Novell and gracefully steal away at the opportune moment . |