Example sentences of "away at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 2 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 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 | Punitive taxes — and the insidious rhetoric that is invariably used to justify them , and then to raise them again — would eat away at the working spirit . |
| 5 | Her voice faded away at the sardonic gleam in his eyes . |
| 6 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 7 | Since Silly-Willie 's birth she had lived far away at the grand end of the West Avenue , in the Gate Lodge , which she kept as spruce as any bedroom in the Big House . |
| 8 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
| 9 | Surrounded by snow and dressed in concert clothes , the two musicians played for a German television crew and a small audience of artists while Serb snipers perched only 150 yards away at the front line took pot shots . |
| 10 | Laurence Tribe , Professor of Law at Harvard University , said he thought the session would continue to chip away at the broad right to abortion . |
| 11 | The entrance with its kiosk and museum was away at the far side , and not inhabited by night . |
| 12 | Water that had started ten miles away at the far end of the moor and then fallen fifteen hundred feet overall . |
| 13 | The lampreys ( Petromyzon ) are rather nasty external parasites of other fish , to which they attach themselves with a sucker , and proceed to rasp away at the living flesh . |
| 14 | It does n't matter that they may be 700 miles away at the other end of a data link . |
| 15 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 16 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 17 | Various people answered , and no one knew where anyone was , and only three or four times was Alistair successfully connected to the apparently permanent coughing fit that crackled away at the other end of Smith 's extension . |
| 18 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 19 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 20 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 21 | But just as the microprocessor and open software standards are gnawing away at the foundations of the mainframe market , so massively parallel machines are beginning to chip away at the monolithic vector machines — once the parallel software catches up with the hardware . |
| 22 | Maybe he 'll go to Novell and gracefully steal away at the opportune moment . |
| 23 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 24 | Vera had started to climax again as she saw Vashinov pump away at the young man , his breathing rapid as he reached towards his orgasm . |
| 25 | Bassist Simon and guitarist Nick stand back and sculpt away at the booming waterfall dazzle textures and crow-headed singer Richard Ashcroft flips out in spasms of electric eel ecstasy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It had begun to chip away at the common sense attribution of ‘ race ’ problems simply to a black presence . |
| 30 | Faldo still enjoyed a three-stroke cushion , but the pumped-up Australian resembled an executioner as he hacked away at the Open champion 's lead . |