Example sentences of "moving [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly it might be proper to consider as ‘ Pacific ’ only those Americans who live west of De Soto , Missouri ( the median point of the population , moving slowly ever-westward as the people do the same ) , or , in Australia , those east of Alice Springs . |
| 2 | You are still fleeing from the past , though , behaving like a trained poodle , moving on rapidly as your mother taught you . |
| 3 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 4 | Windscale slept on the bed , moving over reluctantly as warm comfortable pockets changed shape and form while Bernard and Ellen made love . |
| 5 | Permanent four wheel drive and wider tyres have sorted all that out ; now high grip dissolves into mid power-on understeer in very fast bends , with the tail moving out slightly as adhesion comes . |
| 6 | Keep the board moving as fast as possible . |
| 7 | Get the board moving as fast as possible with the centreboard retracted . |
| 8 | Instead of trying to escape by moving as fast as possible away from the predator , some animals take an erratic zigzag course . |
| 9 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 10 | If I 'd been able to guess at the future , the turning point would have been right there — wheeling the ship around and moving as fast as possible away from anything to do with Fraxilly . |
| 11 | They headed south-east from the city , the Ferrari moving as fast as the wind , following the ‘ Via Tuscolana ’ signs for Frascati where , Nicolo insisted , they would find the best white wine in the world . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going up to London tomorrow , Letty , ’ she said quickly , it was best she got things moving as soon as possible . |
| 13 | Branch secretary Jack Amos explained : ‘ We are writing to all clubs in the branch to see if there is sufficient interest in such a competition and if there is we will get things moving as soon as possible . ’ |
| 14 | Management and councillors are anxious to get things moving as soon as possible . |
| 15 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
| 16 | A Hanoverian stallion , with thick neck and muscular quarters , was moving as lightly as an Arab in a balanced , energetic , collected walk . |
| 17 | Moving as quietly as possible on the gravel , Patrick moved away from the kitchen , and then continued on until he came level with the basement windows . |
| 18 | Moving as quietly as possible he climbed the stairs from the kitchen quarters . |
| 19 | The other five were well aware of the fragility of the Fourth Republic , especially after the 1956 French election , and fearing that the EEC might not happen with a different government in power in Paris , were keen to get things moving as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | They 'd served their purpose , as a handwritten note pushed through the door on the Saturday afternoon had shown ; Mr Sampson — Appreciate your haste and will get things moving as quickly as I can for you . |
| 21 | I heard hoof beats and opened one eye to see my attackers run back into the trees , two of them not moving as quickly as they would want . |
| 22 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 23 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 24 | They turned south this time and soon Jenna was amused and intrigued to see huge gaggles of geese in fields , moving about almost as one and honking loud enough to be heard over the noise of the car . |