Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] fast " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 2 | Things were happening too fast to keep up with . |
| 3 | ‘ We subscribed to a Customs and Excise newsletter to keep pace with the changes — and things were happening so fast they even brought out a special Christmas edition . |
| 4 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 5 | We were going too fast to see any details of the moored vessels so I just snapped a random photograph and , at the very same instant , the Maggot swore and banked and rammed the throttles hard forward . |
| 6 | Well with the others , it used to have to brake , if it were going too fast , you had to brake up a bit . |
| 7 | The AA says lights would help , but police insist that once again drivers were going too fast in fog . |
| 8 | It 's all because they were going too fast . |
| 9 | ‘ They were moving really fast and churning up the sand . |
| 10 | Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written . |
| 11 | Things were moving so fast ; she needed time , a moment 's respite from the onslaught of such wonderful sensations . |
| 12 | Events were moving too fast . |
| 13 | They were moving too fast to jump out . |
| 14 | From the far recesses of consciousness she was aware that things were moving too fast , much , much too fast … |
| 15 | His scouts had assessed that the enemy numbers would reach around twenty thousand , and were moving fairly fast , a mounted host save for the Islesmen and Highlanders who , trained to proceed long distances at the run , and lightly clad , did not hold up the horse to any extent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Tiller 's theatrical enterprises were expanding so fast it became inconvenient to use his warehouse during the evenings and at weekends , so he took over part of St James 's Hall in Oxford Street , Manchester , adjoining the St James 's Theatre . |
| 18 | ‘ His fists were flying so fast , I did n't have a chance to tell him I have Aids . ’ |
| 19 | Such firms were likely to have particular characteristics : they were probably relatively labour-intensive , so labour was an important part of their costs ; or they might be located in an area where labour costs were rising particularly fast , or where labour availability was a problem . |
| 20 | Why , during the 1980s , did juvenile offences such as vandalism and car crime fall in Scotland when in England they were rising so fast ? |
| 21 | They were moving with difficulty , perhaps hampered by their long black cloaks , but they were coming downhill fast . |
| 22 | Conker slowed a little , but the branches were coming too fast , he had to lean right forward and could n't use his hands . |
| 23 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 24 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 25 | The research of the great ecologist David Lack ( 1954 ) showed for example that in many bird species of temperate zones , individuals were reproducing as fast as they were able and that the subsequent population was cut back every year by winter mortality . |
| 26 | Why did n't you tell me I was goin' too fast ? ’ |
| 27 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 28 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 29 | She was walking so fast now , circling the camp , that he had to jog along to keep up . |
| 30 | Nicandra was walking very fast , almost violently , through the hot afternoon . |