Example sentences of "[verb] as fast as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 2 | It was very wet , getting worse , and I did n't feel that the patient could tolerate sitting out flood waters , so we moved as fast as we could . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She continued walking as fast as she could away from Emminster . |
| 5 | AS the January flood waters receded as fast as they had risen , many questions were left unanswered . |
| 6 | Toiling up the slope from Falmer railway station , you had the Kafkaesque sensation of walking into an endlessly deep stage set where apparently three-dimensional objects turned out to be painted flats , and reality receded as fast as you pursued it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On arrival at Edinburgh Airport , two Landrovers awaited us and our luggage , and we drove as fast as we could to Gleneagles , to try to be in time for the Moët et Chandon reception which is the first party of the Rolex-Jackie Stewart Challenge weekend ; this was timed for 8pm ! |
| 9 | She drove as fast as she dared past the Jardin Anglais and at last swung out on to the Quai Gustav Ador . |
| 10 | ‘ I came as fast as I could . ’ |
| 11 | Instead of another row with her mother , she had decided that she must get to the bottom of things by going up to the Hall and speaking to Miss Hatherby , and she pedalled as fast as she could . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We want to grow as fast as we can . ’ |
| 15 | I could n't run as fast as I would have liked . |
| 16 | I ca n't run as fast as you ! ’ |
| 17 | [ aside ] Go on , my dear mother , improving as fast as you will . |
| 18 | Mission accomplished , we head for home , though it 's not just a case of turntail and run as fast as we can . |
| 19 | You run as fast as you can away from it . |
| 20 | I also developed the speed to play as fast as I wanted . |
| 21 | ‘ But when I lower my hand , ride as fast as you can ! ’ |
| 22 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 23 | When I yell , take the first available right again , drop me off quick and then keep right on going as fast as you like . |
| 24 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
| 25 | ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’ |
| 28 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 29 | At each shot he jerked the ‘ rifle ’ up as the recoil would kick it then re-aimed as fast as he could . |
| 30 | 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 . |