Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] fast " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was halfway across the floor of this valley when Ann came running past ; when I say running , I mean as fast as she could stumble over the uneven ground , pack on her back , carrying her fishing-rod . |
| 2 | But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me . |
| 3 | I moved too fast … |
| 4 | ‘ I came as fast as I could . ’ |
| 5 | I look away fast . |
| 6 | ‘ Am I going too fast for you , Jimmy ? ’ he quipped . |
| 7 | Harry Lawrence , Agency , shot dead in Athens , am I going too fast for you ? , ’ |
| 8 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 9 | But perhaps I go too fast . |
| 10 | If I go too fast , tell me — or , so help me , I 'll … ’ |
| 11 | if I go too fast ! |
| 12 | " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? " |
| 13 | He thinks I reacted too fast . |
| 14 | I ran as fast as I dared along the Tottenham Court Road . |
| 15 | You got here fast . ’ |
| 16 | She moved so fast to the door he had no time for even one step . |
| 17 | Instead of another row with her mother , she had decided that she must get to the bottom of things by going up to the Hall and speaking to Miss Hatherby , and she pedalled as fast as she could . |
| 18 | She drove as fast as she dared past the Jardin Anglais and at last swung out on to the Quai Gustav Ador . |
| 19 | " Where are you going so fast ? " |
| 20 | were you going really fast ? |
| 21 | You run as fast as you can away from it . |
| 22 | You get here fast no problem to my country |
| 23 | Instead she walked as fast as she could towards the river , past the mean little houses below the cathedral . |
| 24 | The computer keyboard also has its own memory and if the computer is busy doing something else or you type too fast , the last sequence of keystrokes ( usually 16 ) is remembered so that nothing is lost . |
| 25 | ‘ How can you write so fast , Will ? ’ he asked him . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've stolen a garden , ’ she said very fast . |
| 27 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 28 | You follow as fast as you can . ’ |
| 29 | She wrote very fast , for many hours , and never put her pen down once . |
| 30 | But Jane , the Imp Sixer , added quickly : ‘ But it does n't matter — she runs quite fast when she does start . ’ |