Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] fast [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
| 2 | I also developed the speed to play as fast as I wanted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | of a much more basic malaise and structural phenomenon , namely the inability of the marketable output ( largely industrial ) sector to grow as fast as productivity growth without the economy coming up against a balance of payments constraint , due to a high U.K. income elasticity of demand for imports , coupled with a much lower world income elasticity of demand for U.K exports . |
| 5 | Here the air was clear and light , and the river Froom rushed as fast as the shadow of a cloud . |
| 6 | The rest of those in the room have to try and do what the leader does as fast as possible afterwards , but without making obvious who the leader is . |
| 7 | Keep the board moving as fast as possible . |
| 8 | Get the board moving as fast as possible with the centreboard retracted . |
| 9 | Soon a new strain of oxygen-mediating species arose , enabling evolution to proceed as fast as carbon could be buried in the sediment . |
| 10 | Shamlou 's smile vanished as fast as it had come . |
| 11 | All he wanted was a ‘ getaway car ’ to take him away from the zebra crossing as fast as possible because , when he jumped into my life , he was being chased by a whole gang armed with crossbows and intent on target practice . |
| 12 | One stayed behind and the other hurried as fast as her advancing years would permit , to fetch a neighbour from a nearby cottage . |
| 13 | Over one hundred Tesco stores have bottle banks to collect glass for recycling and we are introducing paper banks as fast as we can . |
| 14 | So far we have looked at changing shares within total public spending , but has the absolute level of public spending grown as fast as critics suggest ? |
| 15 | Toiling up the slope from Falmer railway station , you had the Kafkaesque sensation of walking into an endlessly deep stage set where apparently three-dimensional objects turned out to be painted flats , and reality receded as fast as you pursued it . |
| 16 | Cranston pulled a face and he and the friar walked as fast as dignity would allow from that loathsome place . |
| 17 | ‘ I will go up to the roof , just remember though to tell them to send a ladder up there ’ said Ralph ‘ Take the child with you and hurry ’ And with that Carter ran as fast as he could through the dark air with the lady and child and before long he was out Ralph 's sight . |
| 18 | ( Part of the reason for this , other than the high initial cost of the hardware , is that film recorders take quite an appreciable time to image the slide whereas a rostrum camera works as fast as the operator can change the artwork . ) |
| 19 | Their duty done , the whole gang ran as fast as possible back to the engine and gathered in the cab . |