Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] fast that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 2 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 3 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 4 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 5 | Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air . |
| 6 | Luke moved so fast that she had no time to back away as he turned her into his arms and held her to him , so close that she could feel the hard outline of his thighs through the damp towel , the heavy steady beat of his heart against her breast . |
| 7 | The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol . |
| 8 | By the Franck-Condon Principle , ionization occurs so fast that the internuclear distance does not have time to change ; the ion is produced with the internuclear distance that was appropriate for the molecule , in what is called a ‘ vertical ’ transition . |
| 9 | It came so fast that she hardly knew what had happened . |
| 10 | SATELLITES : They are in SPACE and stay there by going so fast that they never stay in one place long enough to fall down . |
| 11 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 12 | In the event , it all happened so fast that even had Doyle slipped into the garage after Weaver , he would have been too late to prevent tragedy . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , it all happened so fast that they cancelled the sold-out dates because they simply could n't get their work permits in time . |
| 14 | It happened so fast that Mike was left with his arm still outstretched , towards the dinner-jacketed body of his brother . |
| 15 | It happened so fast that her mind went into a spin , and she reeled dizzily , her gaze unfocused . |
| 16 | It all happened so fast that Jenna had no time to move . |
| 17 | Isabel knew her heart had ceased beating because now it shuddered into action again , racing so fast that she began to feel faint . |
| 18 | ‘ The widow , ’ replied Hank , with more than a trace of impatience in his voice , and then continued : ‘ And it 's selling so fast that I do n't know what to do with the money . |
| 19 | Like most new companies , they were overtrading alarmingly and expanding so fast that there was never adequate working capital . |
| 20 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 21 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 22 | The car had rushed into view so unexpectedly and was moving so fast that Mary 's only chance of evading it was to jump . |
| 23 | Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written . |
| 24 | A crowd of tiny creatures , moving so fast that it could hardly see them , charged out from under the table and wrapped a length of old electricity wire around its outflung arms . |
| 25 | In the same moment , she started to come , hips rising so fast that she almost bucked him off . |
| 26 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 27 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 28 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 29 | My only worry is that , with the ground drying up , they might go so fast that he gets disheartened . |
| 30 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |