Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] quickly [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 2 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
| 3 | AT present the family have no plans for returning to England in 1997 , but I think they could decide pretty quickly if they needed to . |
| 4 | This place looked solid enough from the inside , but it could change as quickly as your mind . |
| 5 | Let's press on quickly because I 'm sure we 've all got plenty of other things to get on , with apologies for absence . |
| 6 | As many as possible would cluster at that end , and the stalls would thin out quickly as one went northwards away from the abbey towards the open country , with all its dangers for the peaceful trader . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Probably most of those surviving were reasonably active , as they would die rather quickly when they succumbed to their first serious illness at this stage of life . |
| 9 | Of course , she would die very quickly if she were not to receive intensive and expensive round-the-clock treatment from the staff of the nursing home where she is now a patient . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend the Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) was concerned about people who reoffend while on bail , and we shall deal as quickly as we can with the reports — and the analysis of them — which deal with that . |
| 11 | After the election I am sure any enthusiasm he shows for this issue will disappear as quickly as he will . |
| 12 | I will run as quickly as I can through the minutes of the last meeting just raising those things which still have to be actioned . |
| 13 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 14 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |
| 15 | When , when I 'm not sure what 's happening , and people are sort of weaving about and things like that , you can use that and you can just tick over and your ready to move if you need to and you can stop quite quickly if you need to as well . |
| 16 | ‘ Whichever way she goes we can go more quickly because we can stay on the ride and she dare not . |
| 17 | He can raise the issue by voicing his own increasing doubts about the achievability of the goal and can check very quickly whether he is trampled underfoot in the rush to agree , or scoffed at for his lack of understanding . |