Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] fast " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast . |
| 2 | Why did you want it to go so fast ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And that means it goes so fast you ca n't even hear the separate beats . |
| 4 | Time goes so fast , ’ she added apologetically . |
| 5 | Half term week goes so fast so of all the things we were gon na do this week . |
| 6 | It 's a horrible experience because the the through traffic goes so fast erm , so anybody who actually does n't know quite what you have to do . |
| 7 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 8 | … the city of Chichester doth so fast decay and run to ruine , and the multitude inhabiting there so fast growe too beggary that except for remedy thereof some speedy order bee taken it is very likely the multitude of poor in the liberty of that city increasing will cause the better sorte ( being few that can contribute towards the releefe of the poore ) by reason of charges to wex weery of inhabiting the city . |
| 9 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 10 | ‘ I ai n't never travelled so fast . |
| 11 | Things change so fast . |
| 12 | I say may be , because cask-conditioned beer is being reinstated so fast in so many pubs that it is becoming almost impossible to keep up with the total . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you have to drive so fast ? ’ she snapped . |
| 14 | He drives so fast , ’ she said querulously . |
| 15 | ‘ My heart is completely enchanted with all these pleasures , because it is so jolly on this journey , because it is so warm in the carriage and because our coachman is a fine fellow who , when the road gives him the slightest chance , drives so fast . |
| 16 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 17 | It stays on ‘ full ’ for quite a while and then drops rather fast . ’ |
| 18 | Things moved terribly fast during the war . |
| 19 | ‘ People would n't act so fast , though . |
| 20 | Last summer we counted over thirty bars in all on our various refreshment excursions to Faliraki , but things are happening so fast that who knows how many there will be this summer ? |
| 21 | Everything was happening so fast — he could n't be aware of the crisis he was dragging me towards . |
| 22 | ‘ Everything was happening so fast . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We subscribed to a Customs and Excise newsletter to keep pace with the changes — and things were happening so fast they even brought out a special Christmas edition . |
| 24 | Bones which grow so fast need lots of calcium . |
| 25 | Children grow so fast — we see Ewan about every month or six weeks , and there 's always a big change . |
| 26 | ‘ He starts so fast , but tends to run out of steam . |
| 27 | I do n't think I ever moved so fast in all my life . |
| 28 | She moved so fast to the door he had no time for even one step . |
| 29 | ‘ And she 's that short-sighted that the video moved so fast she could n't see me . ’ |
| 30 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |