Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] fast [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 2 | AS the January flood waters receded as fast as they had risen , many questions were left unanswered . |
| 3 | Certainly , state pensions — now over £25 billion a year — will not grow as fast as they might have done , or seem likely to do in many other rich countries . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 6 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 7 | ‘ You got to keep going when you find 'em , ’ he continued , ‘ the little buggers disappear as fast as they come . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The companies should be warned of the falling guillotine and urged to produce and ship as fast as they can . ’ |
| 10 | Once they had left the shop and collected their horses , Athelstan and Cranston rode as fast as they could up Piper Alley back into the main thoroughfare . |
| 11 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |
| 12 | The economists agree that reforms should happen as fast as they are technically possible , whether ordinary citizens want it that way or not . |
| 13 | The thin man said Crane should be left to make his own way so that the rest of them could ride as fast as they could down one of the tracks to the south . |
| 14 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 15 | The skirmishers in the fields had seen them now , and the French had started to withdraw , firing occasionally , but for the most part just running as fast as they could , to obtain cover amidst the village buildings . |
| 16 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 17 | But yesterday organiers decided competitors could go as fast as they like . |
| 18 | They can go as fast as they want and there will be no restrictions . |
| 19 | The police say that they reacted as fast as they could , but it would have been unsafe to try and stop the party . |
| 20 | And if Marian and the outlaws had already met there was no reason why she should not use the highway and move as fast as they . |
| 21 | ‘ But I 'm sure the little girl 's friends ran specially fast because they loved her so much . ’ |
| 22 | Terror gripped the two men as they ran as fast as they could away from the ghostly train towards Elsham signal box . |
| 23 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 24 | Sowerberry and Oliver , their work done , left as fast as they could . |
| 25 | " The engineers are working as fast as they can . " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I had to pay to have them work as fast as they did , only I did n't want my friend 's grave marked with just a cross in the sand for any longer than it had to be . |