Example sentences of "away [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came he had to pull away quickly so as not to spill a drop of his bodily fluids , like the instructions on the box of condoms said . |
| 2 | So if you have got your heart set on a big wedding for the kids or a fast car when you retire , it is worth putting some money away as soon as possible to make sure the clouds of inflation do n't darken your horizon , adds Mr. Pinnell . |
| 3 | Carrington had already arranged to have it carted away as soon as possible by a salvage unit , and dumped at the old railway sidings at Carluke . |
| 4 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 5 | She poured their tea and sat with a cup of her own by the fire , chatting away as easily as she did every morning . |
| 6 | It came away as easily as a dead treebranch . |
| 7 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 8 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 9 | I ran away as fast as I could along the pavement . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , but I got away as fast as I could , ’ I said . |
| 11 | ‘ But , Noreen — ’ But Noreen was already walking away as fast as she could in the direction of the apartment house . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | However he just wants to get away as fast as he can . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | Surely , if the train were in a station when the emergency occurred , you would get out and run away as fast as possible . |
| 18 | The Rabbit jumped wildly , dropped the gloves and the fan , and hurried away as fast as he could . |
| 19 | She runs away as fast as she can . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When the old man saw me , he shouted loudly and ran away as fast as he could . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | With every nerve straining to turn tail and run , she 'd backed away as quietly as possible and once she was out of earshot raced back down to the beach to find the tide had turned . |
| 24 | I heard screams of anguish , then the attack faded away as suddenly as it came . |
| 25 | I book the late meals at 1430 hours for everyone , and organise the loading of fifty pallets for the exercise — working through lunch to get the vessel away as quickly as possible . |
| 26 | ‘ Take me away as quickly as you can , ’ he said . |
| 27 | They would have to avoid the Warden 's forces , in these circumstances , so would require to plan their approaches carefully , keeping away as far as possible from Teviotdale and Tweeddale . |
| 28 | The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide . |
| 29 | The grassy countryside was flat on either side , stretching away as far as the eye could see . |
| 30 | Last year 's festival was so successful that arts centre staff had to turn people away as early as 8.15pm . |