Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] fast " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did n't you tell me I was goin' too fast ? ’ |
| 2 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 3 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 4 | She was walking so fast now , circling the camp , that he had to jog along to keep up . |
| 5 | Nicandra was walking very fast , almost violently , through the hot afternoon . |
| 6 | Everything was happening so fast — he could n't be aware of the crisis he was dragging me towards . |
| 7 | ‘ Everything was happening so fast . ’ |
| 8 | The man was driving very fast . |
| 9 | ‘ She was driving very fast , ’ he said as he folded the map round the photograph and tucked it into the inner pocket of the waterproof saddlebag . |
| 10 | Willy was driving too fast for safety , naturally , but that did n't become apparent until we started down the hill . ’ |
| 11 | Morpurgo was driving too fast . |
| 12 | ‘ He was driving too fast . |
| 13 | As a postgraduate physicist he had already had several requests for industrial consultancy advice resulting from his involvement in research into the behaviour of semiconductors , an area that was developing very fast . |
| 14 | Her mind was racing too fast . |
| 15 | Pascoe 's mind was racing so fast he had to make an effort of will to bring it under control . |
| 16 | It seemed exhausted ; maybe it was growing too fast for its own good . |
| 17 | When the economy was growing too fast , and inflation and balance of payments problems were starting to emerge , the budget was used to apply the brakes — through higher taxation , tighter hire purchase controls , etc . |
| 18 | And if Oreste was growing so fast it could only mean he was healthy . |
| 19 | We thought that if it was only one tournament out of a Tour that was growing so fast it would not matter . |
| 20 | Yet in 1978 , Montague was going nowhere fast . |
| 21 | In 1989 , the Hyde gas project was going nowhere fast . |
| 22 | He was going too fast for her . |
| 23 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 24 | Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough . |
| 25 | The power is wide enough on the one hand to allow the statement of an eye-witness to an accident to express an opinion ( eg that one of the drivers was going too fast ) and on the other hand to allow a party to put in a medical report from a doctor who has died or who can not be called for any other reason . |
| 26 | Unfortunately there was so little height in which to pull out of the dive , and the aircraft was going so fast , that gross overloading of the wing structure was absolutely inevitable . |
| 27 | I did n't shut the door on him , I left it as long as I dared , but he was going so fast he had n't a hope . |
| 28 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 29 | The Montego was going so fast in places persuing officers saw sparks coming off the engine . |
| 30 | As they crossed in front of the Queensway Tunnel for the final sprint up William Brown Street , 23-year-old Nadobenko was going so fast he mounted the kerb and bounced back but still had the strength to cross the line in first place . |