Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] fast [conj] " 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 | ‘ They were moving really fast and churning up the sand . |
| 4 | Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 7 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 10 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 11 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 12 | It was going very fast and it made a lot of noise . |
| 13 | The car had rushed into view so unexpectedly and was moving so fast that Mary 's only chance of evading it was to jump . |
| 14 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 15 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 16 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 17 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was falling so fast that rivulets of rain streaming down the window-panes made it difficult to see out at all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Her heart was beating so fast that she felt out of breath . |