Example sentences of "[verb] away at [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nails screeched and popped , and the board juddered away at the bottom as something outside slammed against the wood . |
| 4 | A wash and brush up keeps the wheels in good shape … but sometimes mechanics can only sratch away at the problem . |
| 5 | There were two black entertainers banging away at a piano . |
| 6 | Bill was snoring away at the bar . |
| 7 | All through the morning , as they sat on the makeshift bunks , they stared without comment at the kneeling figure who ground away at the rust around the bolt . |
| 8 | On the far side of the tunnel , near the side of the line towards Bath , there was an immensely deep rock quarry , disused and deserted but containing some old equipment , rusting away at the bottom . |
| 9 | Wherever we have looked for savings , we have looked to trimming away at the centre and preserving those services that are delivered to the citizens in a direct way . |
| 10 | He nodded , then turned and rode away at a canter . |
| 11 | Joseph rode away at the head of his people , seeking shelter from the winter snows , recalling of his father : |
| 12 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 13 | Piece by small technical piece , these strategies are eating away at the consensus that originally made OS/2 seem a certainty as the computing world 's next-generation technical standard . |
| 14 | I was on my own now , faced with that half-obliterated turn at the V-point of the side gorge where water pouring over the track was eating away at the surface . |
| 15 | These carvings have been off display for many years as it was discovered that atmospheric pollution , even within the museum , was eating away at the stone . |
| 16 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Erm it will react with the aluminium , eat away at the aluminium . |
| 19 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , guidebooks now pinpoint severity with laser accuracy — grades : adjectival and numerical : even death-potential ; and those oh-so-helpful lists , usually hidden away at the back , slightly shamefacedly among the first ascent details . |
| 21 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 22 | Right , you 've got , they 're hidden away at the moment , I 'll put them in the bag , alright ? |
| 23 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 24 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 25 | In the morning the water would run , run fast and sweet along a mains pipe until it met with an obstruction and the water would eat away at the mass that blocked it . |
| 26 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 27 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 28 | The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away . |
| 29 | No he 'll be at school , just me and you , scrubbing away at the floor you 'd rather do it with Christopher would n't you ? |
| 30 | Wholesome cooking used to mean a whole lot of work … not least of it , reaching up to the grill , and scrubbing away at the oven and hotplate . |