Example sentences of "[adv prt] as quickly as possible " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | He was getting back quicker than I thought because he is quite a tall guy , so I had to knock the stumps down as quickly as possible and the quickest way to get there was through the air — and I took it . ’ |
| 3 | They were asked to write their statements down as quickly as possible and to answer as though describing themselves to themselves rather than to anybody else . |
| 4 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |
| 5 | ‘ Most of us just hope this will be over as quickly as possible and that the Americans go home , ’ a diplomat said . |
| 6 | I want it over as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 7 | Alternatively , and conversely , it may be recognized that the end goal will not be achieved without a period of turbulence , and the pace of change may actually be accelerated , to get it over as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | Whenever she said to him , ‘ But , Norman — do n't you want to sit in it , like other people ? ’ he would reply , rather grandly , ‘ A garden , my dear , is a place for passing through as quickly as possible on the way to the pub . ’ |
| 9 | Would he not clear up and then be off as quickly as possible ? |
| 10 | Only Ceauşescu came to the ‘ obvious ’ conclusion : the debt should not be rescheduled , it should be paid off as quickly as possible . |
| 11 | Then I drew the obvious conclusion and drove off as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 12 | Once the umbilical cord has broken , the stump should be dusted or sprayed with antibiotic to dry it up as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | As they came out of service , they were driven to Mitcham Road depôt for Cohen 's men to break them up as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
| 15 | Whenever liquids or greases are used during maintenance , all excess spillages must be cleared up as quickly as possible and before the equipment is put back into operation . |
| 16 | Mr Savic said : ‘ UEFA would like to get this matter cleared up as quickly as possible , for the benefit of all parties . ’ |
| 17 | Finding the roads almost traffic free , I decided to push on as quickly as possible towards the harsh and romantic west coast . |
| 18 | This impression is confirmed by a conversation Eliot had with George Seferis , the Greek poet , in which he explained how uncomfortable he felt when he was forced to take shelter in an underground station during the blitz : " I would feel the need to get out as quickly as possible , to escape all those faces gathered there , to escape all that humanity " . |
| 19 | Get the computer people to clear out as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | When Muhammad Behbehanian , who was still in Morocco writing to all the Shah 's bankers , told him that he had heard Hassan wanted him out as quickly as possible to understand what had happened and why . |
| 21 | She had a burning need to get this ridiculous misunderstanding sorted out as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | ‘ I think there 's every reason to get them out as quickly as possible , ’ she persisted . |
| 23 | We must get in , do the job and get out as quickly as POSSIBLE — leaving the place as the public have a right to find it . |
| 24 | ‘ The way we conceded goals at Coventry was very hard to take and I 'm looking for us to bounce back as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | We shall come back as quickly as possible and take you to the Hall . |
| 26 | ‘ Trying to shop with three children in tow is no joke — I just gallop round as quickly as possible . |