Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] fast [subord] " in BNC.

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1 I came as fast as I could . ’
2 I ran as fast as I dared along the Tottenham Court Road .
3 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 .
4 She drove as fast as she dared past the Jardin Anglais and at last swung out on to the Quai Gustav Ador .
5 Instead she walked as fast as she could towards the river , past the mean little houses below the cathedral .
6 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 . ’
7 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 !
8 The police say that they reacted as fast as they could , but it would have been unsafe to try and stop the party .
9 Terror gripped the two men as they ran as fast as they could away from the ghostly train towards Elsham signal box .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 But even so , you would n't have thought it went as fast as that in a creature that moves so slowly , would you , Miss Honey ? ’
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