Example sentences of "away at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mind gnawed away at the questions . |
| 2 | In five attacks he emptied every bullet in the drum , battering away at the vitals : the engine , cockpit , fuel tank . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Stan , ’ said Lydia , abstractedly , pulling away at the feathers of the pheasant and strewing them about her . |
| 6 | Corrosion within heating systems gradually eats away at the insides of steel radiators to form iron oxides — the brown or black sludge that is so familiar to any d-i-y plumber . |
| 7 | ‘ The idea was n't greeted with much enthusiasm at first , ’ he says , ‘ But we continued plugging away at the distillers and mounted a back-selling campaign to the airline industry , pointing out what a boon light-weight ‘ Melinar ’ containers would be to them for their in-flight miniatures and duty-free supplies . |
| 8 | In an air attack on the way back he had been killed while firing away at the fighters who were strafing his truck . |
| 9 | There 's a great physicality to it , like when Lee 's bro Neil biffs away at the drums during ‘ Failure ’ . |
| 10 | Carl is banging away at the drums , |
| 11 | Biblical criticism had undermined the Bible story , and physicists and geologists chipped away at the events depicted in the first book of Genesis . |
| 12 | Emmie imagined the beetles busy in the roof , gnawing away at the rafters . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | The caterpillars are most often found on the lower side of the leaves , which usually show signs of being eaten away at the edges . |
| 15 | Peanut feeders with a strong fine mesh ensure that the birds must scrape and chip away at the nuts , avoiding the problem of nestlings choking on whole nuts in spring . |
| 16 | In like manner , but without the risk , Bloomsbury chipped away at the standards inherited from Victorians . |
| 17 | He was like a gold miner , chipping away at the rocks and occasionally discovering tantalizing little nuggets that spurred him on towards his dream of striking a rich seam . |
| 18 | That rap is snapping away at the threads that bind the hypocrisy of society is now an acknowledged fact . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |