Example sentences of "[adv] as quickly [subord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Her legs were still trembling but she was pulling herself together as quickly as she could and she had to admit that his quiet actions helped . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I knew he could punch but I did n't know Razor could go down as quickly as that . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bearing in mind that there 's something like forty companies chasing about eighteen percent of this market , do you honestly feel that your advertising revenue is going to go down as quickly as feel if you want to try and keep ahead of the the pack and keep up with the leaders . |
| 7 | Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mandy , her battle-lust having died down as quickly as it had set in , flopped down on Charity 's bed , and patted the spot beside her . |
| 10 | If Alan heard , he remained silent , probably resolving to get ashore as quickly as possible . |
| 11 | ‘ Most of us just hope this will be over as quickly as possible and that the Americans go home , ’ a diplomat said . |
| 12 | I hurried over as quickly as I could . ’ |
| 13 | I want it over as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 14 | the affair blew over as quickly as it had begun , for Bayley removed his sons from the School at the end of the Summer Term . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Let us get this over as quickly as we can . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Now , when I touch his cheek with my finger , he responds normally , but not as quickly as he responds when he is held to the breast . |
| 19 | In the Low Country the number of reported thefts increased very gradually , though not as quickly as the human population . |
| 20 | He intended to get better just as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | As a profession A&R is as precarious as politics , with reputations lost just as quickly as they 're won . |
| 22 | Printed with a new thermal chromatic invisible ink , the animals and trees actually disappear from the T-shirt when you get hot — just as quickly as they are disappearing from the wild , in fact ! |
| 23 | And he is convinced the temperamental Frenchman — bought for £1.2 million — will have to conform to manager Alex Ferguson 's regime or else he will be dispensed with just as quickly as he was at Leeds and his other clubs . |
| 24 | Your salary will grow just as quickly as your skills and responsibilities — and that could be very fast indeed . |
| 25 | She grew tired of her less-than-suitable young man just as quickly as her parents had predicted and then in no time at all fell in love with and married the elder son of a duke . ’ |
| 26 | However , when there were pragmatic constraints on which of two people was likely to be the actor and which the acted-upon , there was no difference in response times to active and passive forms , and a sentence like The bather was rescued by the lifeguard was responded to just as quickly as The lifeguard rescued the bather . |
| 27 | The appliance manufacturers , the frozen food kings , the canners and food merchants exploited to the hilt the female desire to get out of the kitchen just as quickly as possible . |
| 28 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 29 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 30 | I book the late meals at 1430 hours for everyone , and organise the loading of fifty pallets for the exercise — working through lunch to get the vessel away as quickly as possible . |