Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] fast [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design . |
| 2 | I was halfway across the floor of this valley when Ann came running past ; when I say running , I mean as fast as she could stumble over the uneven ground , pack on her back , carrying her fishing-rod . |
| 3 | But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me . |
| 4 | ‘ I came as fast as I could . ’ |
| 5 | We 've all been overtaken by someone going too fast and too close to the vehicle in front . ’ |
| 6 | " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? " |
| 7 | I ran as fast as I dared along the Tottenham Court Road . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She drove as fast as she dared past the Jardin Anglais and at last swung out on to the Quai Gustav Ador . |
| 10 | You run as fast as you can away from it . |
| 11 | Instead she walked as fast as she could towards the river , past the mean little houses below the cathedral . |
| 12 | More grievous allegations were brought against the bicycling ‘ scorchers ’ who went too fast or , to strike another note of discontent , who went too far and barged into middle-class leisure haunts . |
| 13 | You follow as fast as you can . ’ |
| 14 | But Jane , the Imp Sixer , added quickly : ‘ But it does n't matter — she runs quite fast when she does start . ’ |
| 15 | We change as fast as we possibly can , |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | The police say that they reacted as fast as they could , but it would have been unsafe to try and stop the party . |
| 19 | Terror gripped the two men as they ran as fast as they could away from the ghostly train towards Elsham signal box . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Erm , like they come really fast so you like just jot them down quickly erm without full stops |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It came so fast that she hardly knew what had happened . |
| 24 | It happened so fast that Mike was left with his arm still outstretched , towards the dinner-jacketed body of his brother . |
| 25 | It happened so fast that her mind went into a spin , and she reeled dizzily , her gaze unfocused . |
| 26 | She 'd never seen anyone move as fast as he did when he put poor old Dan Pearson on his back . |
| 27 | In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents . |
| 28 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ |
| 30 | It was pitch dark and it went really fast but I was n't scared ! ’ |