Example sentences of "[adv] quickly as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 2 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 3 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 4 | She flushed and looked down quickly as she caught Faye 's curious , narrow-eyed glance . |
| 5 | She hid it away quickly as I entered the room . |
| 6 | And talking of cards , ’ she went on quickly as it registered with Fabia that if adding Cara 's name to hers on any card she sent home was n't lying , then she did n't know what was , ‘ you 'd better take a couple of my business cards . ’ |
| 7 | He finished off quickly as I came in , apologized when he realized it was my pen , and that was an end to it . |
| 8 | We are all familiar with the fact that the days of our childhood seemed to stretch out , passing more and more quickly as we grew . |
| 9 | The drugs that depressed the immune system were stopped , and as quickly as they had grown , the masses in the lungs began to disappear . |
| 10 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 11 | Once returns began to grow and disillusion amongst consumers had set in , the new players began to withdraw from the market almost as quickly as they had entered . |
| 12 | As quickly as they had arrived , the pack scattered and disappeared upslope into the maze of boulders and gullies , the odd stone rattling to mark their passing . |
| 13 | Dior voids making its customers look ridiculous with extreme designs which will go out of fashion as quickly as they came in . |
| 14 | They came as quickly as they went . |
| 15 | ‘ What computers can easily do is to enable unskilled people to produce rubbish twice as quickly as they did before , ’ Forsyth remarks . |
| 16 | Yates , 25 later this month , has been tracked by a number of top clubs , including both Liverpool and Spurs , but manager Neil Warnock yesterday admitted : ‘ His injury is not responding as well or as quickly as we had thought . |
| 17 | And you 'll agree that we 're not doing that as quickly as we 'd hoped ? |
| 18 | Adele had looked up at him , not quickly but as quickly as she 'd been able . |
| 19 | as quickly as she had entered . |
| 20 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 21 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 22 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 23 | Rosa slipped out of their bed , and , imagining herself on water , trod as lightly as she could ; her feet left moist imprints on the coldness of the tiled floor which shrivelled up as quickly as she made them , until she too vanished through the door . |
| 24 | ‘ She said he kept promising to marry her , but by mid-May she had got very frustrated that the relationship was n't accelerating as quickly as she wanted , said Antonia 's friend . |
| 25 | There 's serious talking to be done this week , especially is it now seems you are n't going to be able to escape an intense situation as quickly as you 'd hoped . |
| 26 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 27 | The plant died off almost as quickly as it grew . |
| 28 | Moran hardly heard ; all resentment left him as quickly as it had come : McQuaid was here and it was Monaghan Day . |
| 29 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 30 | The light was extinguished as quickly as it had come , and her shoulders curled with disappointment . |