Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] fast [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch . |
| 2 | ‘ The companies should be warned of the falling guillotine and urged to produce and ship as fast as they can . ’ |
| 3 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mission accomplished , we head for home , though it 's not just a case of turntail and run as fast as we can . |
| 6 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 7 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |
| 8 | We had six minutes to eat lunch , so I stuffed bread , yoghourt , fish stew and beans into my mouth , and chewed as fast as I could . |
| 9 | He says sometimes it 's a pain cos you get up and if I 'm late I 've got to rush around and go as fast as I can to school and you get cold and your fingers start freezing up so it 's not much fun . |
| 10 | And if Marian and the outlaws had already met there was no reason why she should not use the highway and move as fast as they . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then he turned and ran as fast as he could to catch up with Trung . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We crossed Holywell Road , Deep Ditch , and travelled as fast as we could around Charterhouse and Clerkenwell , keeping well clear of the city before taking the road south to New Cross . |
| 15 | For a while , Jem manages to restrict Scout who does n't realise how serious everything is and wants to run to Atticus , but eventually she breaks free and runs as fast as she can to him . |
| 16 | They needed no second bidding but rode as fast as they could , not pausing until they thundered through the half-open gate of Godstowe Priory , putting the porter into such serious agitation he appeared almost sober for once . |