Example sentences of "[to-vb] away at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter 's shop . |
| 2 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 3 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
| 4 | They assumed that pupils , mostly boys , of course , who were failing on the school reading scheme simply needed more and more opportunity to slog away at the phonics and sight vocabulary while under tight supervision . |
| 5 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 6 | It would be ironic to pick away at the mortar for a few decades only to break through into the next-door cell . |
| 7 | the other one , but even though it opens outwards , a bit comes in and a bit comes out and so he had to chip away at the |
| 8 | Barely a week into the tour , Johnny Marr was feeling the strain : ‘ I feel like I 'm in The Rolling Stones or any other rock band , ’ he said as the gruelling schedule began to etch away at the excitement generated by that first night . |
| 9 | He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching . |
| 10 | The acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic , the bottom strands of her curly hair . |
| 11 | Eurotunnel , where fears of another refinancing continued to eat away at the share price , and MEPC stood out as the only Footsie stocks to fall , off 1 at 402p and 2 at 286p respectively . |
| 12 | The activated enzyme was then supposed to eat away at the synaptic membrane so as to expose more NMDA receptor sites which , until thus exposed , remain buried in the membrane surface and hence inactive . |
| 13 | ‘ We thought it was as good an excuse as any and we were all able to get away at the same time . |
| 14 | The lampreys ( Petromyzon ) are rather nasty external parasites of other fish , to which they attach themselves with a sucker , and proceed to rasp away at the living flesh . |
| 15 | Horses are sensible enough to shy away at the sound of a hiss . |
| 16 | The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest . |
| 17 | Provided he could use the motion , he might be able to rock away at the melancholy and eventually shift it off its fierce sticking point . |
| 18 | A contributory factor to the muddled thinking on excise duty on whisky has been the discrimination in favour of imported wine , where increased consumption has been shown to cut away at the base of whisky consumption . |
| 19 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |