Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] fast [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 2 | Welcome back:A new clinic … the first of it 's kind in Britain … is cutting hospital waiting lists so fast that it 's been described as a runaway success . |
| 3 | Outside young girls in pairs hold hands facing each other and , leaning back , they pirouette so fast that their shawls flare out from the tops of their heads . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 5 | There he became a world champion in a year filled with controversy and difficulty and there he learned that he neither really liked being world champion ( it was inhibiting ) nor really driving fast cars as fast as he was expected to ( they were thoroughly frightening ) . |
| 6 | We both got out of the jeep as fast as we could and sprinted in the direction of the slit trenches . |
| 7 | We called and shouted and sailed our little boat as fast as we could . |
| 8 | Two of them disappeared without trace as fast as they could . |
| 9 | And then , without caring what the headmaster might think , he ran after Maisie as fast as he could . |
| 10 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 11 | And , Hal , from Chester I must go north to the march as fast as I may , for Walton sends me word there are new raids threatening , and it 's his belief and mine there are French knights serving there with Douglas . ’ |
| 12 | If they are too far away to charge the Snotlings move towards the nearest enemy as fast as they are able . |
| 13 | And the triple classic winner flew across Newmarket Heath so fast that Clive is brimming with confidence that she can stay unbeaten next Sunday . |
| 14 | She was silent and acquiescent , however , so he climbed in and drove her round several blocks , just for the joy of it , taking the sharp corners so fast that her tyres shrieked in protest . |
| 15 | Before our friend had finished telling us his news I got on my bicycle and rode to the cemetery as fast as I could . |
| 16 | Since deregulation , buses are only trying to get from A to B as fast as possible in order to make as much profit as possible . |
| 17 | Designed to provide a straight answer to a straight question as fast as possible . |
| 18 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 19 | He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers . |
| 20 | Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece . |
| 21 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can a normal sword . |
| 22 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield their mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 23 | The Sword Masters are so superlatively trained that they can wield these mighty swords as fast as an ordinary warrior can use a normal sword . |
| 24 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 25 | One day in February , just six weeks after Sarah accepted Nahum Morey 's proposal , Edward Wooldridge ran home from the Chertsey Infants ' School on the corner of St Anne 's Road as fast as his six-year-old legs would carry him . |
| 26 | If Ellwood went to the house , Zeno got him out of the place as fast as he could . |
| 27 | I 'm getting us off this planet as fast as I can . ’ |
| 28 | I left the hotel and returned to Geneva as fast as I could . |
| 29 | Of course , if prices generally do rise , the value of money falls with all sorts of unpleasant consequences for the classes who can not raise their money incomes as fast as others , and , in the case of Britain particularly , for the national balance of payments . |
| 30 | Turning , she hobbled back to her room as fast as she could and took her jewel box out of the drawer . |