Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] quickly as " in BNC.
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1 | As I approached , one of them spoke with weary resignation : ‘ Would you please get this vehicle out of here as quickly as possible , sir ’ . |
2 | ‘ I want them in and out of here as quickly as possible . |
3 | And he is convinced the temperamental Frenchman — bought for £1.2 million — will have to conform to manager Alex Ferguson 's regime or else he will be dispensed with just as quickly as he was at Leeds and his other clubs . |
4 | ‘ Come on , Piper , do n't stand there dozing , let's get away from here as quickly as possible ! ’ |
5 | ‘ Well , now you have rung , get in here as quickly as you can . |
6 | However , when there were pragmatic constraints on which of two people was likely to be the actor and which the acted-upon , there was no difference in response times to active and passive forms , and a sentence like The bather was rescued by the lifeguard was responded to just as quickly as The lifeguard rescued the bather . |