Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] fast [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 2 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
| 3 | Your letter is moved as fast as possible in the UK and you receive express delivery abroad where this is available ( see the list of countries in the Royal Mail International Guide ) . |
| 4 | Defensive positions must be prepared as fast as possible . |
| 5 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 6 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 7 | Their response to danger is to flee as fast as possible , rather than freeze or hide . |
| 8 | Keep the board moving as fast as possible . |
| 9 | Get the board moving as fast as possible with the centreboard retracted . |
| 10 | Instead of trying to escape by moving as fast as possible away from the predator , some animals take an erratic zigzag course . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The old woman scarcely said a word and betrayed no emotion , although Martha felt an obscure sense of triumph and her mother was plainly anxious to leave as fast as possible . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Both attempt to go as fast as possible . |
| 17 | If you are made redundant try to get some sort of retraining as fast as possible , before you lose your nerve . |
| 18 | We never went as fast as downhill skiers might with their heavy skis on steeper slopes , but our descents were exciting nevertheless . |
| 19 | This will help eliminate the virus through your urine and sweat as fast as possible . |
| 20 | He must complete his mission and leave as fast as possible . |
| 21 | Their duty done , the whole gang ran as fast as possible back to the engine and gathered in the cab . |
| 22 | They should privatise as fast as possible , and preferably all at once ; but then go carefully on trade . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | if either has risen , whether it has failed to rise as fast as Gross Domestic Product . |
| 25 | 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 . |