| This weekend is a case in point, while much of Europe grinds to a halt, the Greeks are beavering away. |
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| Back in the golden days of the space age, artists were beavering away in studios all over America creating visions of the future. |
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| Orchard and his growing cadre of workers have been beavering away at the tough but always rewarding slog of organization ever since. |
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| No, really, we've been working hard, beavering away while Jane, who normally occupies this slot, has sloped off on the piste in Les Alps. |
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| We're still working hard, closing teams down, and beavering away until we get a result. |
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| Workers in bright-yellow hard hats are beavering away, moving bucketloads of stones in wheelbarrows and trying to clear a pile of rubble with a digger. |
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| In Toronto neighbourhoods far from the downtown, a loose coalition of people has been beavering away to raise public concern about the city's proposed Official Plan. |
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| Any day now, I can just picture it, I'll nip down to them in the basement and they'll be beavering away at Two Gentlemen of Verona or A Midsummer Night's Dream. |
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| What would you think if you heard someone with a British accent make reference to a person beavering about? |
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| Beavering away when the first beaver family was set free in Knapdale forest, Argyllshire, at the start of a five-year-trial. |
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| She won't be going out much, as she's beavering away on her thesis. |
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| I was thinking more of the tendency today for people to develop whole areas of mathematics on their own, in a rather abstract fashion. They just go on beavering away. |
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