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But in another sense the big time almost slipped away from him.
I've let a lot of things slip away from me.
A single man in the group could have slipped away last night.
I let the day slip away without doing anything at all.
All she had to do now was to slip away from the others.
She had slipped away in the morning without a word.
After a few weeks, he slipped away and went back home.
Try to get us here before we slip away again.
What I must think of was some way to slip away from them.
I will not let her slip away from me again.
And I am about to slip away from them again.
For answer, she slipped away the way they had come.
Then, without so much as a sound, they slipped away, the million of them was gone.
Of course, he knew the ground better than I and had soon slipped away from me.
Was she the only one who could feel time slipping away?
Even slipping away for just a few hours is an act of will.
And another chance at a major might have slipped away.
But I am not going to let this one slip away from me!
After a few weeks, he felt his mind slipping away again.
By the summer of 1969 the game was slipping away.
He started to black out, could feel the world beginning to slip away.
Not only the room, but herself and everything about her was slipping away.
Before I could move she was at the door, slipping away from me.
Mother above, how could the time have slipped away from her so quickly?
And there would never be a better time to slip away.