Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] fast [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I may not move as fast as you , but we 'll be there in good time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even worse , the European empires at least left behind them working administrative structures and moderately healthy economies , which meant that most of the ex-colonial countries have managed to maintain stable states and thriving economies — although , of course , not thriving as fast as ours in the west — but the Soviet empire is leaving no administration at all , only economic catastrophe . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Miss Abbott , how good you are , do n't pull so , Robert , how can poor Miss Abbott possibly come as fast as you ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I ca n't run as fast as you ! ’ |
| 8 | I could n't run as fast as I would have liked . |
| 9 | At each shot he jerked the ‘ rifle ’ up as the recoil would kick it then re-aimed as fast as he could . |
| 10 | ‘ We then ran as fast as we could and only minutes later the bomb went off . ’ |