Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] fast " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A higher proportion of experienced rather than newly-qualified drivers failed because of driving too fast for the conditions , approaching junctions too fast and not anticipating the actions of other drivers . |
| 2 | The experience of GCSE reform demonstrates the dangers of moving too fast with too few resources . |
| 3 | If you are made redundant try to get some sort of retraining as fast as possible , before you lose your nerve . |
| 4 | The herbivores have keen senses with which they are continuously alert for predators , and they are usually capable of running very fast to escape them . |
| 5 | Exasperated police blamed drivers for going too fast and ignoring fog warning signs . |
| 6 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 7 | I was me and it was both frightening and exciting , like driving very fast round a precipitous bend with someone now and again taking my hands off the wheel and forcing me to trust . |
| 8 | Motoring organisations slammed senseless drivers for travelling too fast . |
| 9 | This is usually used in novice classes to deter people from going dangerously fast . |
| 10 | The less successful a government is in controlling the PSBR , the more it will have to borrow through bond issue to prevent money supply from growing too fast . |
| 11 | When Attlee was consulted he wrote , ‘ There is an obvious risk in moving so fast ’ , but he acquiesced . |
| 12 | They stop the eye from moving so fast , as in these sentences : |
| 13 | When I yell , take the first available right again , drop me off quick and then keep right on going as fast as you like . |
| 14 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 15 | Miss Honey was walking slowly so that the small child could keep up with her without trotting too fast , and it was very peaceful out there on the narrow road now that the village was behind them . |
| 16 | We 're getting an Audi that 's a diesel , it 's gon na go well fast |
| 17 | Oh it 's not gon na go so fast then is it ? |
| 18 | The 47 per cent failure rate was caused by driving too fast , inadequate use of mirrors , and poor observation and steering . |
| 19 | Police have launched a new campaign to crackdown on motorists who 're killing people by driving too fast . |
| 20 | SATELLITES : They are in SPACE and stay there by going so fast that they never stay in one place long enough to fall down . |
| 21 | Instead of trying to escape by moving as fast as possible away from the predator , some animals take an erratic zigzag course . |