Example sentences of "[v-ing] as fast as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 2 | She continued walking as fast as she could away from Emminster . |
| 3 | [ aside ] Go on , my dear mother , improving as fast as you will . |
| 4 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 5 | When I yell , take the first available right again , drop me off quick and then keep right on going as fast as you like . |
| 6 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
| 7 | ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’ |
| 10 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 11 | Constance came hurrying as fast as she could with her stick . |
| 12 | ‘ God , it 's handy having you around ! ’ says Phil , scribbling as fast as he can . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ We looked round , and there was Anna , crawling as fast as she could to me . |
| 17 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |
| 18 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 19 | The skirmishers in the fields had seen them now , and the French had started to withdraw , firing occasionally , but for the most part just running as fast as they could , to obtain cover amidst the village buildings . |
| 20 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 21 | He heard a cry from the top + the sound of something falling , but he kept running as fast as he could , meowing loudly . |
| 22 | There is an old saying that whipping a donkey will do no good if it 's running as fast as it can . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Nenna shook off her other shoe and began half walking and half running as fast as she could , not looking behind her , Laburnum Street , Whiston Street , Hows Street , Pearson Street , a group at the end of Cremers Street who stood laughing , probably at her . |
| 25 | Accelerating as fast as we can |
| 26 | Even worse , the European empires at least left behind them working administrative structures and moderately healthy economies , which meant that most of the ex-colonial countries have managed to maintain stable states and thriving economies — although , of course , not thriving as fast as ours in the west — but the Soviet empire is leaving no administration at all , only economic catastrophe . |
| 27 | There were three people in front and two of us packing as fast as we could . |
| 28 | " The engineers are working as fast as they can . " |
| 29 | They ran towards them , Willie following as fast as he could , climbing over several small children on the way . |
| 30 | 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 . |