Example sentences of "[adv] quickly [subord] she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he pulled her towards him and asked her to give him a kiss , but she pulled away quickly when she saw Mum 's scowl . |
| 2 | Adele had looked up at him , not quickly but as quickly as she 'd been able . |
| 3 | as quickly as she had entered . |
| 4 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 5 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 6 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 7 | Rosa slipped out of their bed , and , imagining herself on water , trod as lightly as she could ; her feet left moist imprints on the coldness of the tiled floor which shrivelled up as quickly as she made them , until she too vanished through the door . |
| 8 | ‘ She said he kept promising to marry her , but by mid-May she had got very frustrated that the relationship was n't accelerating as quickly as she wanted , said Antonia 's friend . |