Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] fast [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And then , without caring what the headmaster might think , he ran after Maisie as fast as he could .
2 He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers .
3 One day in February , just six weeks after Sarah accepted Nahum Morey 's proposal , Edward Wooldridge ran home from the Chertsey Infants ' School on the corner of St Anne 's Road as fast as his six-year-old legs would carry him .
4 I left the hotel and returned to Geneva as fast as I could .
5 He turned and went out and hurried along Baker Street as fast as his game leg would allow .
6 She must get away from Nathan Bryce as fast as she could .
7 She snapped the locks on the case , lifting it from the table , wanting only to get away from Luke Calder as fast as she could .
8 Zahedi said he intended to settle the oil dispute with Britain as fast as he could , and the United States at once promised the loans that it had refused Mossadeq .
9 Gabriel shook his head furiously ; then hurried back to the Mason as fast as he could go without spilling the liquor .
10 ‘ I just want to leave London as fast as possible , ’ Evelyn replied , playing along .
11 If you were rich , you left London as fast as you could .
12 You 'll see , they 'll quarter the soldiers on us , but the king 's officers will be pushing on for London as fast as they can . ’
13 The moment the work was done he had ordered his coachman to drive him back to Millfield as fast as the horses would go .
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