Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv] fast " in BNC.

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1 Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design .
2 ‘ Am I going too fast for you , Jimmy ? ’ he quipped .
3 Harry Lawrence , Agency , shot dead in Athens , am I going too fast for you ? , ’
4 We 've all been overtaken by someone going too fast and too close to the vehicle in front . ’
5 But perhaps I go too fast .
6 If I go too fast , tell me — or , so help me , I 'll … ’
7 if I go too fast !
8 " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? "
9 I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear .
10 " Where are you going so fast ? "
11 were you going really fast ?
12 More grievous allegations were brought against the bicycling ‘ scorchers ’ who went too fast or , to strike another note of discontent , who went too far and barged into middle-class leisure haunts .
13 ‘ Folk do rush around so these days , Everything goes too fast .
14 And I think the buses should be banned anyway because they go so fast .
15 Why did you want it to go so fast ? ’
16 ‘ And that means it goes so fast you ca n't even hear the separate beats .
17 He went in fast , jabbing one-legged and made a hit .
18 ‘ It was his fault , he went too fast , ’ she said .
19 He went down fast , clawing at the water with his hands , trailing his useless leg , and praying there was no blood pumping out , clouding the water , and contaminating it with its smell .
20 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 !
21 But even so , you would n't have thought it went as fast as that in a creature that moves so slowly , would you , Miss Honey ? ’
22 It went so fast you did n't know how fast it was going ; it went so high you could n't see how high it was .
23 It went so fast , we could n't believe it .
24 It was pitch dark and it went really fast but I was n't scared ! ’
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