Example sentences of "[v-ing] as fast [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
2 | She continued walking as fast as she could away from Emminster . |
3 | [ aside ] Go on , my dear mother , improving as fast as you will . |
4 | ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch . |
5 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill . |
6 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’ |
7 | When I yell , take the first available right again , drop me off quick and then keep right on going as fast as you like . |
8 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
9 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
10 | ‘ Some people have suggested that people end up going as fast as 70mph , ’ said Mr Rose . |
11 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
12 | Constance came hurrying as fast as she could with her stick . |
13 | ‘ God , it 's handy having you around ! ’ says Phil , scribbling as fast as he can . |
14 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
15 | Thames Water says demand for supplies is n't growing as fast as expected . |
16 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
17 | Another snag is that construction costs in Berlin , already higher than in western Germany , are now rising as fast as rents . |
18 | Keep the board moving as fast as possible . |
19 | Get the board moving as fast as possible with the centreboard retracted . |
20 | Instead of trying to escape by moving as fast as possible away from the predator , some animals take an erratic zigzag course . |
21 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
22 | If I 'd been able to guess at the future , the turning point would have been right there — wheeling the ship around and moving as fast as possible away from anything to do with Fraxilly . |
23 | They headed south-east from the city , the Ferrari moving as fast as the wind , following the ‘ Via Tuscolana ’ signs for Frascati where , Nicolo insisted , they would find the best white wine in the world . |
24 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
25 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
26 | ‘ We looked round , and there was Anna , crawling as fast as she could to me . |
27 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |
28 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
29 | When you go arter a job like that , if you 're doing as fast as what the machine will take it to do it properly , you ca n't force it . |
30 | If you are made redundant try to get some sort of retraining as fast as possible , before you lose your nerve . |