Example sentences of "so fast that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 2 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 3 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 4 | The feeling sent the adrenalin rushing around so fast that it threatened to wear me out before I got to my destination . |
| 5 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 6 | Welcome back:A new clinic … the first of it 's kind in Britain … is cutting hospital waiting lists so fast that it 's been described as a runaway success . |
| 7 | The whirligig sometimes moves so fast that it overtakes its own ripples , and then any slight slope in the surface alerts it to an obstacle . |
| 8 | Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air . |