After five minutes all they'd done was make a lot of noise, clanging and banging away at it.

When the ambulance clanged away, he turned to a fellow patrolman who had joined him.

Michael could hear typewriters echoing, banging and clanging away behind closed doors.

The way we're creeping along, we'd have to be clanging away on that church bell to attract any attention.

"I guess it's the price one pays for not being there all the time," he said, ignoring the alarm bells clanging away in his head.

The bell rang again, and then started to clang away in an odd jerky rhythm for several minutes.

I watched a train pull in, wait for no more than a minute or two, then clang scruffily away.

The knife went clanging away after the first kick.

She could still feel her pulse clanging away at her temples.

But then Blofeld seemed to be satisfied and the iron steps clanged away.