Example sentences of "[vb pp] away at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Right , you 've got , they 're hidden away at the moment , I 'll put them in the bag , alright ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tucked away at the foot of the steep Tibbiwell Lane is the site of one of the largest and longest worked mills in Painswick , Brookhouse Mill . |
| 7 | Instead , Amstrad PCs and PCWs are tucked away at the back with the printers and answering machines . |
| 8 | Ingrid Heseltine , an EC civil servant , found the vacancies tucked away at the back of Euro documents , printed in French . |
| 9 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 10 | Invited by Hawke Systems Ltd , Slough , Berkshire , to cast a glance over DEC 's Alpha boxes last week , Unigram.X was turned away at the door when DEC UK officials turned white at the mention of press . |
| 11 | There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice . |
| 12 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 13 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Cullen asked if she could not have run away at the time . |
| 15 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 16 | But time and tide and neglect had eaten away at the structure so that even at low tide , with the slabs fully exposed , crossing would be tricky . |
| 17 | The caterpillars are most often found on the lower side of the leaves , which usually show signs of being eaten away at the edges . |
| 18 | The French men were identically garbed in black trousers and " le smoking " — a white dinner jacket cut away at the waist — while the women wore dresses from shops in the Rue Catinat fashionable enough to allow them to forget that the Rue de la Paix was a twelve-thousand-mile sea journey away . |
| 19 | It is slightly cut away at the rear and so does n't put pressure on the Achilles tendon . |
| 20 | All attempts by the parents to have a Lydia or a Charles would be doomed to failure : one Lydia just lived to see her first birthday — the first two years of life seeming to be the most dangerous by far for the poor little infants — and the next passed away at the age of three , baptised at St John 's but buried by the Baptists of Badcox Lane . |
| 21 | Disgruntled sheep with strange dye markings cropped away at the grass , glowering at Charles as he passed . |
| 22 | Would be shoved away at the back ! |
| 23 | Biblical criticism had undermined the Bible story , and physicists and geologists chipped away at the events depicted in the first book of Genesis . |