Example sentences of "and [verb] away at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 3 | She clattered back to her office and pounded away at the audio letters for an hour and a half , broken only by a trip to the kitchen for coffee . |
| 4 | The third step is cracked and breaking away at the edge . |
| 5 | Was this what the murderer had done , leaving fingerprints which were by now enlarged and recorded and locked away at the police station , waiting to be produced at the trial ? |
| 6 | It was the time of wooden pit props and er much kneeling and laying down and hacking away at the coal with picks and there was no mining machinery as we know it now . |
| 7 | Call like Green Woodpecker , but more musical , slower and falling away at the end . |
| 8 | 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 . |