Example sentences of "[verb] fast [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They grow fast when transferred into trays or pots in the conservatory , greenhouse , cold frame or on a window ledge , prior to setting out in the garden a week or two later . |
| 2 | A sharp fall in output of steel and smaller falls in mechanical engineering goods , commercial vehicles , beer , tobacco and consumer durables offset continuing increases in chemicals and pharmaceuticals , which have responded fast and positively to devaluation . |
| 3 | McLeish pondered this , eyes narrowed , driving fast but carefully . |
| 4 | He was driving fast but safely and , Agnes noted , not as well as she could have done . |
| 5 | They had to work fast but with care since poor incisions invariably brought a beating from the cai or the French . |
| 6 | When the Fascists and National Socialists took office they promised fast and far reaching social reforms . |
| 7 | ‘ I think it is , ’ she said suddenly , and her heart beat fast as she felt the hatred burn in her eyes , directly at him , her mouth a tight line , her body rigid with anger . |
| 8 | It has fast and slow flowing sections and forms a natural habitat for a variety of wildf |
| 9 | With their combined torches flooding the corridor with light they moved fast and instinctively . |
| 10 | The Autocrat moved fast and softly through chintzy prefabs and the continuing scenes of black family life , with its leagues of brothers and stand-offs in the basketball courts , and mothers " shapes behind the insect mesh , calling . |
| 11 | He moved fast and confidently , but when he had gone only three hundred yards he began to feel breathless , long before he should have done , and realised what that one shot might have done . |
| 12 | The private sector collects around 60% of household rubbish in France , barely 5% in Britain , though that figure will grow fast as local authorities are forced to seek competitive outside tenders . |
| 13 | They had damped their fire till there was no red , and yet the attackers came fast and unerringly for them , from the north and from the south . |
| 14 | Fred 's face was flushed a deep red and his breath came fast as he slipped down his trousers and pressed himself on top of her body . |
| 15 | He ate fast and heartily , but his skinny frame never gained a pound . |
| 16 | The Right Hon John Patten MP , Minister of State for the Home Office ( right ) , comments that , ‘ Victim Support has deservedly grown fast because it meets a long-standing and deep need that had been neglected for far too long . |
| 17 | I think I caught a refrain from one of Sankey 's hymns : ‘ A bright crown awaits thee , Hold fast till I come ’ . ’ |
| 18 | She recollected fast and said there had been a development in the case during the evening . |
| 19 | They drove fast but wisely to St Mary 's , the great brick facade like that of a prison , the chimney of the incinerator . |
| 20 | He drove fast and cheerfully . |
| 21 | J. Stasiak ( HAS March 21 ) needs reminding that the community charge was introduced after a lawful groundswell of protest about the former rates system with which many Labour councils played fast and loose . |
| 22 | Armani shot down in flames those who thought the empire he founded in 1974 would die with the demise of the business half of his partnership ; he learnt fast and today manages to be all money , all business , without sacrificing the brilliant creative edge which has made him fashion 's greatest superstar for the past decade . |
| 23 | The Mountie , feeling the tug , turned fast and put his hand down on Sheridan 's wrist . |
| 24 | However , we can work fast when people are in a rush . ’ |
| 25 | They were only upstaged by Tim Stockdale and Philip Heffer , who dressed as Show-Jumping ‘ Groupies ’ , with poor Franke Sloothaak proving he can run fast when he needs to . |
| 26 | I run fast as I can at the window , but it still wo n't break . |
| 27 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 28 | She snatched up one of the spears racked handy beside the hearth , and her father ducked fast as it slashed just over his head into a tapestry hanging above the fire , cut a two-foot gash in Saint Peter 's side and raised a shower of sparks . |
| 29 | A warm excited thrill ran through my veins , my blood seemed to give a bound , and then raced fast and hot along its channels . |
| 30 | Having launched and got going you should be attacking , going fast and trying to pass others in an effort to get clear wind . |