Example sentences of "[adv] as quickly as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If Alan heard , he remained silent , probably resolving to get ashore as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | He intended to get better just as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | As a profession A&R is as precarious as politics , with reputations lost just as quickly as they 're won . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Your salary will grow just as quickly as your skills and responsibilities — and that could be very fast indeed . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Take me away as quickly as you can , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The best defence here is to go underground as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | Get home as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | Uncle Alfred , returning from a ramble up-river to fetch food , heard the commotion and hurried home as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | But , in my experience , if this is the case although it is possible to plant a new church it will not happen nearly as quickly as it will do if someone can make themselves available full-time . |
| 19 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 20 | In the meantime , a tourism study should be got underway as quickly as possible to ensure we maximise our influence over the WTB 's thinking . |
| 21 | ‘ Come on , Piper , do n't stand there dozing , let's get away from here as quickly as possible ! ’ |
| 22 | As I approached , one of them spoke with weary resignation : ‘ Would you please get this vehicle out of here as quickly as possible , sir ’ . |
| 23 | We are aware now that you 're operating without a license and it 's up to you to get that license here as quickly as possible ! |
| 24 | We are aware now that you 're operating without a licence and it 's up to you to get that licence here as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | " I guess we ought to get the ox carts here as quickly as possible , Monsieur Devraux , to take our bull and the calf back for skinning . |
| 26 | ‘ I want them in and out of here as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , now you have rung , get in here as quickly as you can . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , it 's been an awful , terrible accident , but we 've now got to concentrate on making sure that Liz and Owen get well as quickly as possible . |
| 29 | I want you fit and well as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 30 | Young people with backpacks and habitual travellers may know what it means to go on a journey , but for most the romance of escape begins with deciding where to go on holiday and then getting there as quickly as possible . |