Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even encumbered by his painting gear and a heavy camera case , Fen strode along as fast as ever . |
| 2 | Along Heygate Street last night there was n't a pedestrian in sight and cars drove through as fast as they could . |
| 3 | Mildred squeezed through the gap and set off as fast as possible along the corridor and down the spiral staircase to the yard . |
| 4 | They ran off as fast as their legs would carry them . |
| 5 | How has a Montpellier fishwife so mastered the art of composition that with her basket of fish for the bouillabaisse she is presenting a picture of such splendour that instead of going to look at the famous collection of paintings in the Musée Fabre you drive off as fast as possible to the coast to order a dish cooked with just such fish ? |
| 6 | There is nothing in these two pieces that Eckard could not have written , but the sketchiness and even abruptness of their construction , the unenterprising harmony , and the lack of textural variety suggest that , if he did compose them , he dashed them off as fast as he could write for a pupil of little talent and not much discrimination . |
| 7 | The knees must come up as fast as possible to waist height . |
| 8 | Nor have prices gone up as fast as it predicted . |
| 9 | Get up as fast as possible . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been asked by the Cancer Research Campaign to press on as fast as possible . ’ |
| 11 | The ladies of the town shrieked with laughter whilst Ranulf , his face flushed , hurried on as fast as he could . |
| 12 | In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership . |
| 13 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 14 | I finished my drink , quickly said goodbye to the other actors and got out as fast as I could , not wanting to register their smirks and curiosity . |
| 15 | ‘ If I shout that I 'm going down , haul me out as fast as you can , ’ he ordered . |
| 16 | On the occasions she had to pick up or deliver there she got in and out as fast as possible . |
| 17 | The men wanted to get the hell out as fast as possible — they were concerned about survival . |
| 18 | ‘ I want you to get back to the docks and get everybody out as fast as you can . |
| 19 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 20 | Enrolled training would be phased out as fast as possible , with existing enrolled nurses given opportunities for conversion courses . |
| 21 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 22 | I came back as fast as I could . " |
| 23 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 24 | One look at the screenshots will tell you this is n't a dodgy Speccy port , updating about as fast as a reasonably athletic snail . |