Example sentences of "[v-ing] away at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 2 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 3 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 4 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 5 | Slogging away at the military hospital , sickened by the pain she saw and more muddled than ever , she decided that when the war was over she would become a tramp . |
| 6 | I 'm the sort of fellow who , after a hard day slogging away at the National Theatre , goes home and dips into a much-treasured , well-thumbed copy of Pope or Pepys . |
| 7 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 8 | no no the starlings seem to be pecking away at the top slabs are getting dry so I do n't know , er you see that man 's still up there , I wonder what he 's doing up there at the side |
| 9 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 10 | Ahead children lay like bundles of clothing on the edge of the road , only rolling away at the last hoot . |
| 11 | Her imagination went wild ; she pictured Barney seated in a hard chair in a dingy police interview room while the detective probed and bullied and cajoled , plucking away at the outer layers of his mind , stripping it down to its sensitive core , implacable in his search for signs of weakness or guilt . |
| 12 | Sitting in the compartment in my dark city suit , working away at the bright knitting caused a lot of second glances from passers-by , but usually ensured I kept the compartment to myself . |
| 13 | American and allied aircraft are already pounding away at the fixed and mobile missile launchers concealed in the desert of south-western Iraq . |