Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] fast [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 3 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 4 | There is usually a pressing desire of all parties to proceed as fast as possible so the solicitors are required to produce their draft agreement before they have received all the information requested or the accountants have completed due diligence . |
| 5 | Police blamed the crash on drivers going too fast and too close in freezing fog . |
| 6 | I also developed the speed to play as fast as I wanted . |
| 7 | At the Queen Street entrance she caught a glimpse of a red-clad figure running as fast as her legs would carry her to keep up with the woman who was taking her away . |
| 8 | By the Franck-Condon Principle , ionization occurs so fast that the internuclear distance does not have time to change ; the ion is produced with the internuclear distance that was appropriate for the molecule , in what is called a ‘ vertical ’ transition . |
| 9 | of a much more basic malaise and structural phenomenon , namely the inability of the marketable output ( largely industrial ) sector to grow as fast as productivity growth without the economy coming up against a balance of payments constraint , due to a high U.K. income elasticity of demand for imports , coupled with a much lower world income elasticity of demand for U.K exports . |
| 10 | Here the air was clear and light , and the river Froom rushed as fast as the shadow of a cloud . |
| 11 | While the rider tried to hold on , to calm the horse and to prevent himself being thrown , Ruth ran as fast as she could towards the wood . |
| 12 | In the same moment , she started to come , hips rising so fast that she almost bucked him off . |
| 13 | The rest of those in the room have to try and do what the leader does as fast as possible afterwards , but without making obvious who the leader is . |
| 14 | Keep the board moving as fast as possible . |
| 15 | Get the board moving as fast as possible with the centreboard retracted . |
| 16 | It 's also a lot harder to be a rhythm player than it is a solo player , because anyone can make their fingers move really fast and play shitty solos . |
| 17 | Soon a new strain of oxygen-mediating species arose , enabling evolution to proceed as fast as carbon could be buried in the sediment . |
| 18 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
| 19 | Up until the final minutes the jokes fly as fast as sniper 's bullets . |
| 20 | AS the January flood waters receded as fast as they had risen , many questions were left unanswered . |
| 21 | Shamlou 's smile vanished as fast as it had come . |
| 22 | All he wanted was a ‘ getaway car ’ to take him away from the zebra crossing as fast as possible because , when he jumped into my life , he was being chased by a whole gang armed with crossbows and intent on target practice . |
| 23 | One stayed behind and the other hurried as fast as her advancing years would permit , to fetch a neighbour from a nearby cottage . |
| 24 | They ran towards them , Willie following as fast as he could , climbing over several small children on the way . |
| 25 | As it spread , its uses diversified so fast as to make any introduction to twelfth-century sources on the scale attempted in the earlier parts of the book ( pp. 17–26 , 124–32 ) impossible . |
| 26 | The first full edition seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion , with names added as fast as they could be obtained , out of alphabetical order , and with an unreliable index . |
| 27 | A spokesman for the AA Roadwatch unit said : ‘ There have been lots of shunts with people going too fast and being unable to handle their car . |
| 28 | Ninety per cent of accidents are caused by people going too fast and there is never , never an excuse for speed . |
| 29 | Over one hundred Tesco stores have bottle banks to collect glass for recycling and we are introducing paper banks as fast as we can . |
| 30 | I speed the pace a little — Rainbow twirls so fast that the wind hisses through her shirtsleeves , and the wax on the well-sprung dancefloor melts and bubbles . |