Example sentences of "run as fast " in BNC.
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1 | I can run as fast as Magnus when I try . |
2 | I could n't run as fast as I would have liked . |
3 | I ca n't run as fast as you ! ’ |
4 | A penalty is that the translated binaries do not run as fast as programs compiled from source for Alpha — DEC says performance degradation is around 50% — but translation can save customers from rewriting old applications . |
5 | Watching him , we all became aware that the style of play was beginning to favour forwards who should run as fast as wings or centres . |
6 | An average polar bear stands almost four feet tall at the shoulder , weighs 1,500 lbs and can run as fast as 25 miles an hour . |
7 | Mission accomplished , we head for home , though it 's not just a case of turntail and run as fast as we can . |
8 | You run as fast as you can away from it . |
9 | Poor Nutmeg was very scared , he began to run as fast as he could . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Others had festering wounds that seemed never to heal , or had adapted themselves to a three-legged gait , running as fast as the other dogs but with one leg , withered or deformed from birth , tucked up under their bodies . |
12 | The first was a short man who was walking along the street , and the second was a little girl who was running as fast as she could . |
13 | Nenna shook off her other shoe and began half walking and half running as fast as she could , not looking behind her , Laburnum Street , Whiston Street , Hows Street , Pearson Street , a group at the end of Cremers Street who stood laughing , probably at her . |
14 | At the Queen Street entrance she caught a glimpse of a red-clad figure running as fast as her legs would carry her to keep up with the woman who was taking her away . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | There is an old saying that whipping a donkey will do no good if it 's running as fast as it can . |
17 | He heard a cry from the top + the sound of something falling , but he kept running as fast as he could , meowing loudly . |
18 | I ran as fast as I dared along the Tottenham Court Road . |
19 | While the rider tried to hold on , to calm the horse and to prevent himself being thrown , Ruth ran as fast as she could towards the wood . |
20 | Terror gripped the two men as they ran as fast as they could away from the ghostly train towards Elsham signal box . |
21 | Their duty done , the whole gang ran as fast as possible back to the engine and gathered in the cab . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Twisting into the first side street and then a smaller street off that and along its full length he ran and ran as fast as his legs would carry him . |
24 | Oliver , filled with anxiety , ran as fast as he could along the country roads and across the fields until , hot and exhausted , he reached the town . |
25 | Joseph smiled hesitantly and waved , but this embarrassed the little Annamese girl and she turned and ran as fast as she could to catch up with her parents . |
26 | Then he turned and ran as fast as he could to catch up with Trung . |
27 | Renewed tears flowing , dirty hands in dirty pockets , she ran from that terrible , disloyal little hen — ran as fast as she could to find Anderson , with his promise of comfort and sound advice . |
28 | She ran home , ran as fast as she could ; she was running from the picture of Miss Arabella Marks deep in a hole where earth crept up round her lace-frilled socks and drowned her beautiful blue eyes . |
29 | ‘ We then ran as fast as we could and only minutes later the bomb went off . ’ |
30 | I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house . |