Example sentences of "away [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ran away as fast as I could along the pavement . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , but I got away as fast as I could , ’ I said . |
| 3 | ‘ But , Noreen — ’ But Noreen was already walking away as fast as she could in the direction of the apartment house . |
| 4 | As with most young men who had succeeded in sowing casual wild oats , it was a case of get away as fast as you can before they start getting ideas . |
| 5 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
| 6 | These are all responses which were highly suitable in prehistoric times when events required either that you ran away as fast as you could or that you had a surge of energy to help you fight your way out of a difficult situation as ferociously as possible ( fight or flight behaviour ) . |
| 7 | However he just wants to get away as fast as he can . |
| 8 | ( There are spiders too : an engineer , inspecting the Lake as it was filling , reported seeing a half-drowned tree covered with what appeared to be black foliage : he paddled alongside , then shot away as fast as his blades could carry him . |
| 9 | Surely , if the train were in a station when the emergency occurred , you would get out and run away as fast as possible . |
| 10 | The Rabbit jumped wildly , dropped the gloves and the fan , and hurried away as fast as he could . |
| 11 | She runs away as fast as she can . |
| 12 | This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him . |
| 13 | When the old man saw me , he shouted loudly and ran away as fast as he could . |
| 14 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |