Example sentences of "away at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're like a small drop of water wearing away at a stone . ’ |
| 2 | But Suzanne Capper was dumped 10 miles away at a golf course near Stockport , Cheshire . |
| 3 | The trouble is , Tom Wendell 's away at a seminar . ’ |
| 4 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 5 | Moreover we never look hard for what we do n't particularly want to find , and governments ’ revenues and manpower were so highly committed towards programmes of quantitative expansion ( particularly at secondary level ) and subsequently towards keeping the machine they had created running , that few people were prepared to question advice which suggested that a certain new activity could be safely ( and , hopefully , inexpensively ) tucked away at a centre or institute . |
| 6 | ‘ His second offence was kicking the ball away at a free-kick . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This type of thing eats away at a fighter 's heart — it 's like a cancer that has to be cut out . |
| 8 | But then he started scribbling away at A Year in Provence and the rest is history . |
| 9 | The young merchant 's wife , her old husband away at a Guild meeting , had been delighted to see her amorous gallant . |
| 10 | Number five , a weekend away at a health farm . |
| 11 | While de Gaulle quietly and sometimes not so quietly chipped away at a NATO defence policy integrated under American leadership , he also sought to assert French autonomy and leadership in Europe . |
| 12 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 13 | Mike scrubbed away at a fork . |
| 14 | She scraped away at a pan in silence for a while . |
| 15 | His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice . |
| 16 | But then excitement is never far away at a place where radio link-ups are common , and an episode with of Challenge Anneka was based . |
| 17 | She turned Midnight on his hocks and went away at a canter . |
| 18 | He nodded , then turned and rode away at a canter . |
| 19 | As the Press and television cameras waited a short distance away at a community centre , the coach slipped quietly into Niddrie Mains Drive and on to Wauchope Terrace . |
| 20 | Sometimes he thought that he 'd have liked nothing more than to be like Michael of the tarmac boys , gap-toothed and thick-headed and with no greater concern than that of pissing his money away at a speed roughly equal to that at which he made it , but he had to make do with the hand that he 'd been dealt — thin-skinned and solitary , one of nature 's observers . |
| 21 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 22 | She 'll be away at a family wedding or funeral for a few days . |
| 23 | The Sergeant informed me that No. 46 Royal Marine Commando had come ashore in Normandy on D-Day + 1 and had gone into action almost straight away at a spot further along the coast from here , against a crack German S.S. Unit ( Hitler Youth ) . |
| 24 | There were two black entertainers banging away at a piano . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Using the fork like a pick she chipped away at the soil . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At once the big yellow dog began digging away at the hole in the bank . |
| 30 | Nicholas bashes away at the landscape and I did … |