Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] as fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 2 | May I advise you to hurry home as fast as you can . " |
| 3 | It had been clear that Bowman , a research scientist and administrator , was anxious to press ahead as fast as possible , and this had brought him into conflict on several occasions with industry , the government and the NRA chair , Lord Crickhowell . |
| 4 | However he just wants to get away as fast as he can . |
| 5 | Some Labour politicians , including Reg Prentice as a junior minister , wished them to be ‘ required ’ to do this ; Crosland preferred that they should be ‘ requested ’ , determined that empty threats should not be issued or implied and to go forward as fast as he could by agreement and persuasion . |
| 6 | Low temperatures place them at no obvious disadvantage — they have evolved physiological systems that allow them to move just as fast as temperate or tropical fish , and they are no easier to catch . |