Example sentences of "move [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rohmer had hold of the filing cabinet with Jimmy now , and Cardiff and Barbara moved quickly aside as Duvall reached the landing again , looking vacantly at the wrestling match with the cabinet . |
| 2 | In the ninth century , members of this magnate stratum , this " imperial aristocacy " , could still move about the Carolingian world ; and they moved nearly always as individuals , no doubt with retinues , but not ( an exceptional case apart ) concerting action with groups of kinsmen . |
| 3 | The white-washed walls of the lift shaft moved smoothly downwards as the lift ascended . |
| 4 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 5 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 6 | It was very wet , getting worse , and I did n't feel that the patient could tolerate sitting out flood waters , so we moved as fast as we could . ’ |
| 7 | Hornbeam moved as smoothly as a snake , creeper twisted , ivy writhed about the mossy bark , reaching towards her , its soft and furry touch tickling as it wound about her skin . |
| 8 | Ships were carved from the blighted forests with supernatural speed , and raiders moved as far as the Isle of the Dead before being turned back by the warding spells . |
| 9 | He moved as quickly as a squirrel , half-falling from knot to knot . |
| 10 | He moved as quietly as he could . |
| 11 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 12 | Irene moved even closer as the conversation took another turn . |
| 13 | The thirteen men moved closer together as they rode on . |
| 14 | Your letter is moved as fast as possible in the UK and you receive express delivery abroad where this is available ( see the list of countries in the Royal Mail International Guide ) . |
| 15 | The questions can be listed in rough under the headings ( some people put each question on a card to begin with ) and then they can be moved about so as to produce what seems to be a good ‘ flow ’ for the interview . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You are still fleeing from the past , though , behaving like a trained poodle , moving on rapidly as your mother taught you . |
| 18 | I think the rule should be you should move on soon as you win one , I think . |
| 19 | She would n't have believed that he could move so fast as , with a rushing like that of fluid from a punctured sac , the rotten body comes slithering out in a wave of its own juices . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Windscale slept on the bed , moving over reluctantly as warm comfortable pockets changed shape and form while Bernard and Ellen made love . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Keep the board moving as fast as possible . |
| 24 | Get the board moving as fast as possible with the centreboard retracted . |
| 25 | Instead of trying to escape by moving as fast as possible away from the predator , some animals take an erratic zigzag course . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going up to London tomorrow , Letty , ’ she said quickly , it was best she got things moving as soon as possible . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |