1. His aides assured him that officials were beavering away in their offices. 2. But the zealots are beavering away. 3. To this end Glouchkov has a team of 30 Price Waterhouse accountants beavering away in Avtovaz's unlovely base at Togliatti. 4. For nearly a decade, a crack team of engineers has been beavering away in a hideout high in the Rocky Mountains. 5. The section starts with a wee montage showing skilled technicians ( white coats, spectacles etc ) beavering away on Apple Macs. 6. He's either in high feather over some epithet his grandfather has just hurled or beavering away in a file room somewhere. 7. The Treasury is beavering away at a study on this, which may become part of Bush's re-election drive. 8. The shy couturier himself was not on hand, as he is beavering away on his next haute couture collection for early July. 9. Wherever there's a line of food trucks, a field hospital, or a refugee camp, there are Irish nationals beavering away. 10. As Enron was collapsing, its principals were beavering away, trying to get a power broker to step in and save the company from disaster.