Example sentences of "[vb -s] away at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Mediterranean , the great pale green sea that sloshes away at the coastline of Phoenicia , this too still shaped our movements and our lives , provided the essential and unchanging link between that distant , unphotographed world of Roberts and the country in which I now lived . |
| 2 | Corrosion within heating systems gradually eats away at the insides of steel radiators to form iron oxides — the brown or black sludge that is so familiar to any d-i-y plumber . |
| 3 | There 's a great physicality to it , like when Lee 's bro Neil biffs away at the drums during ‘ Failure ’ . |
| 4 | Nicholas bashes away at the landscape and I did … |
| 5 | And so although the disease fits my prescription , and although it too can be usefully linked with a skin complaint ( eczema ) which also flakes away at the body 's surface , I had to abandon asthma . |
| 6 | Leader of the pack : Ayrton Senna pulls away at the start of the South African Grand Prix |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The thin end of the wedge is that this chips away at the core of what makes union unique : it is a game for all shapes and sizes . |
| 9 | It simply scraps away at the rabbit 's hindquarters but a rabbit can sit out this sort of treatment for quite long periods before feeling any need to react . |