Example sentences of "[verb] away at this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter . |
| 2 | But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London . |
| 3 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 4 | Katya looked away at this point , the shame and embarrassment of that recollection burning in her eyes . |
| 5 | I keep hammering away at this point but it applies to so many areas and it 's so rarely done . |