Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] fast [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 2 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 3 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 4 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 5 | The research of the great ecologist David Lack ( 1954 ) showed for example that in many bird species of temperate zones , individuals were reproducing as fast as they were able and that the subsequent population was cut back every year by winter mortality . |
| 6 | The output of private presses , which was growing much faster than that of the party and the state , had to be monitored , and surpassed in quality by party organs . |
| 7 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 8 | The first was a short man who was walking along the street , and the second was a little girl who was running as fast as she could . |
| 9 | For a second she imagined that she detected a bleary look within his own eyes — and she knew it must match her own — but then it was gone as fast as summer lightning and she shivered beneath the old familiar expression , that brooding , storm-filled one that she knew boded no good to her . |
| 10 | The major problem identified by eugenicists during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries was that the birth rate of the middle class — the eugenically fit — was falling much faster than that of the working class . |
| 11 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |