Example sentences of "they [verb] away at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whilst they are here , we hope that they rub away at the image of Birmingham and find its reality . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |