Example sentences of "[verb] fast [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are forced to work fast and badly , but we do n't know whether there is any point to it because it may all be swept away in a month ; on the other hand , nothing at all may happen , in which case we will have done it badly to no purpose . |
| 2 | His heart beats faster and once a trembling goes through his slender body like unbearable expectation . |
| 3 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 4 | The only other candidate , Token Ring , allows faster and more secure traffic around a network ; but it 's more expensive to implement . |
| 5 | Its song whirls faster and faster |
| 6 | But the snow , which has been slight in the past half-hour , suddenly begins to fall fast and furiously again , limiting her vision . |
| 7 | Sometimes the tides run fast an' sometimes a man gets the feelin' 'e can swim across from shore ter shore with ease when it 's runnin' slow . |
| 8 | In the run-up to Christmas , their games are selling faster than ever . |
| 9 | The crowds are the biggest the bookshop has seen and the book is selling faster than any the publisher has known . |
| 10 | Most often seen either as a long-winged rufous bird flying fast and twistingly out of sight among the trees , or in unmistakable territorial flight ( ‘ roding ’ ) . |
| 11 | No one knows where HIV started , but we do know that it is spreading fast and nearly every country in the world has people with HIV or AIDS . |
| 12 | next stop for the powerboaters is Hungary … the race for the world championship is floating … flying faster than ever … |
| 13 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 14 | At the age of four , she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering after books . |
| 15 | These are lessons that the Russian people are learning fast and hard ; it is not at all easy for them . |
| 16 | I was trying to think fast and barely heard what he said . |
| 17 | Her heart began to beat fast and heavily . |
| 18 | As long as he can write fast and legibly and they write it up as fast as he , they can . |
| 19 | The system will enable banks , building societies , security printers and government departments to print cheques and credit slips faster and more cheaply . |
| 20 | Egg rolling — see whose egg goes fastest or furthest down a smooth slope . |
| 21 | As you get close , the water flows faster and faster . |
| 22 | In such circumstances , an industrial policy that seeks faster and more efficient rationalization of the sunset industry may be advantageous . |
| 23 | A hundred years on and the scene at Balcombe is much the same ; trains faster and far more frequent are still thundering through the tunnel but without the cheering villagers to wave them on their way . |