Example sentences of "away at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we poked away at the goulash soup with its lumps of pork and potato and which had been interestingly seasoned with caraway , Ladislav wanted to know my impressions of what I had seen and , in particular , my own attitudes to Marxism . |
| 2 | Nineteen miles away at the Loch Ness Centre , you can see evidence and theories about the elusive monster , and take a ‘ Jacobite Cruise ’ from the Clansman Marina to Urquhart Castle . |
| 3 | Using the fork like a pick she chipped away at the soil . |
| 4 | Exotic animals are a regular sight in the fields around Midway Manor , Bradford on Avon , home of WWF 's late Chairman Tim Walker — but one evening last summer , exotica of a different kind roamed the lawns and danced the night away at The Dance for Life in aid of WWF . |
| 5 | At once the big yellow dog began digging away at the hole in the bank . |
| 6 | Nicholas bashes away at the landscape and I did … |
| 7 | Bill was snoring away at the bar . |
| 8 | One by one , Tony Benn , Eric Heffer , Audrey Wise and the formidable Joan Maynard — dubbed ‘ Stalin 's granny ’ by the ungallant right — blazed away at the mood of meek obeisance abroad in Brighton . |
| 9 | You can see them at the Southport Soul Weekend on Saturday and signing their new single You Threw Our Love Away at the HMV shop on Tuesday lunchtime . |
| 10 | While he was away at the buffet , MacMinimum said quietly to John : ‘ For God 's sake , say not a word on railways . |
| 11 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 12 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |
| 13 | If your master 's away at the race meeting and anything happened to a horse I do n't carry my respons I do n't do it on my shoulders , I go and get a vet . |
| 14 | James watched me prodding away at the knitting for a while , and I sensed his helplessness . |
| 15 | Six miles away at the RSPB reserve at Loch Garten , you can see the nesting ospreys and in the adjoining Abernethy Forest you can walk in 21,000 acres of mountain , moorland and native pine forest . |
| 16 | To join a new length of pipe into an existing inspection chamber , you will have to break a hole in the wall of the chamber and chop away at the benching so that a new half channel can be laid to join up with the main channel . |
| 17 | No he 'll be at school , just me and you , scrubbing away at the floor you 'd rather do it with Christopher would n't you ? |
| 18 | These carvings have been off display for many years as it was discovered that atmospheric pollution , even within the museum , was eating away at the stone . |
| 19 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 20 | Instead , Amstrad PCs and PCWs are tucked away at the back with the printers and answering machines . |
| 21 | And somewhere tucked away at the back of one 's mind was the knowledge that every crystal in the vast whiteness , though too small for the human eye to see , was fashioned like a flower or a star . |
| 22 | The bulk of the issue is devoted to an acrimonious article full of names and packdrill , a furious rebuttal from the accused , a reply from the accusers , and , tucked away at the back , a letter from the accused replying to the reply . |
| 23 | But tucked away at the back of the stall were some English and American newspapers . |
| 24 | Would be shoved away at the back ! |
| 25 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Ingrid Heseltine , an EC civil servant , found the vacancies tucked away at the back of Euro documents , printed in French . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One of these away at the back used to what it would be like to have teeth . |
| 30 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |