Example sentences of "[adv] fast as we " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to grow as fast as we can . ’ |
| 2 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 3 | We both got out of the jeep as fast as we could and sprinted in the direction of the slit trenches . |
| 4 | Mission accomplished , we head for home , though it 's not just a case of turntail and run as fast as we can . |
| 5 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 6 | To continue to reduce taxes as fast as we prudently can . |
| 7 | ’ And as soon as she disappears , we beat it as fast as we can . |
| 8 | It 's the highway and as fast as we can go . ’ |
| 9 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 10 | In 1992 , the Conservative manifesto makes not even the most platitudinous mention of such a target : its four stated economic aims are ‘ to achieve price stability ; to keep firm control over public spending ; to continue to reduce taxes as fast as we prudently can ; [ and ] to make sure that market mechanisms and incentives are allowed to do their job . ’ |
| 11 | There were three people in front and two of us packing as fast as we could . |
| 12 | Accelerating as fast as we can |
| 13 | As fast as we could . ’ |
| 14 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 15 | Unger depicts herself and others working in the psychology of women , as caught up in ‘ facho ’ , a feminist version of macho ( Arpad 1986 : 208 ) , which in their case took the form of an obsession with productivity much like that found in the mainstream : ‘ like the characters in Through The Looking Glass we are all running ( and writing ) as fast as we can to keep up ’ ( 1979 : vii ) . |
| 16 | On arrival at Edinburgh Airport , two Landrovers awaited us and our luggage , and we drove as fast as we could to Gleneagles , to try to be in time for the Moët et Chandon reception which is the first party of the Rolex-Jackie Stewart Challenge weekend ; this was timed for 8pm ! |
| 17 | We called and shouted and sailed our little boat as fast as we could . |
| 18 | Sometimes we got into a shoal of them and pulled them in as fast as we could handle the lines ; sometimes we failed to find any . |
| 19 | We ran after it as fast as we could . |
| 20 | In the hon. Gentleman 's constituency , the time taken is being reduced , although it has not been reduced as fast as we should like . |
| 21 | ‘ We then ran as fast as we could and only minutes later the bomb went off . ’ |
| 22 | Over one hundred Tesco stores have bottle banks to collect glass for recycling and we are introducing paper banks as fast as we can . |
| 23 | We crossed Holywell Road , Deep Ditch , and travelled as fast as we could around Charterhouse and Clerkenwell , keeping well clear of the city before taking the road south to New Cross . |
| 24 | Of course , we can in theory expand the business as fast as we like , but even a major player like Sainsbury 's has n't got an infinite supply of skilled bakers and bakery managers on hand . |
| 25 | It was very wet , getting worse , and I did n't feel that the patient could tolerate sitting out flood waters , so we moved as fast as we could . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ As fast as we are reducing the population arriving from the marshland and canal they are expanding . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ As fast as we are reducing the population arriving from the marshland and canal they are expanding . ’ |
| 28 | We change as fast as we possibly can , |