Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] fast as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you go arter a job like that , if you 're doing as fast as what the machine will take it to do it properly , you ca n't force it . |
| 2 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’ |
| 5 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 6 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
| 10 | There is an old saying that whipping a donkey will do no good if it 's running as fast as it can . |
| 11 | " The engineers are working as fast as they can . " |
| 12 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |