Example sentences of "[adv] fast that " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the same moment , she started to come , hips rising so fast that she almost bucked him off . |
| 32 | It happened so fast that Mike was left with his arm still outstretched , towards the dinner-jacketed body of his brother . |
| 33 | Then I was falling , so fast that I felt quite breathless . |
| 34 | Julia got up from her chair so fast that the basketwork shrieked . |
| 35 | Secondly , if the joke is so successful that it gets a lot of laughter you do not want to rush on so fast that your next words can not be heard . |
| 36 | He spun around so fast that he came close to falling over , his heart leaping like a bird in a snare . |
| 37 | It was falling so fast that rivulets of rain streaming down the window-panes made it difficult to see out at all . |
| 38 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 39 | The feeling sent the adrenalin rushing around so fast that it threatened to wear me out before I got to my destination . |
| 40 | The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol . |
| 41 | Like most new companies , they were overtrading alarmingly and expanding so fast that there was never adequate working capital . |
| 42 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 43 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 44 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 45 | At very high temperatures , particles would be moving around so fast that they could escape any attraction toward each other due to nuclear or electromagnetic forces , but as they cooled off one would expect particles that attract each other to start to clump together . |
| 46 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 47 | By the Franck-Condon Principle , ionization occurs so fast that the internuclear distance does not have time to change ; the ion is produced with the internuclear distance that was appropriate for the molecule , in what is called a ‘ vertical ’ transition . |
| 48 | Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures , but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased , after the completion of the amount of text Faber 's required , to be the one that needed to he written . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It happened so fast that her mind went into a spin , and she reeled dizzily , her gaze unfocused . |
| 51 | It all happened so fast that Jenna had no time to move . |
| 52 | Ten to one ! ’ he shouted , and waltzed his darling Min and her chair so fast that they crashed against a bollard . |
| 53 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 54 | She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned . |
| 55 | Kate began to have the feeling that she was caught by forces stronger than her , that she was in the power of some strange vortex that was spinning her around so fast that she no longer knew how to keep control . |
| 56 | I speed the pace a little — Rainbow twirls so fast that the wind hisses through her shirtsleeves , and the wax on the well-sprung dancefloor melts and bubbles . |
| 57 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 58 | Then , in a movement so fast that Isabel had to replay it later in her mind to sort everything out , fitzAlan flung his cloak over the drunk on his left and brought his sword slashing through the air to slice through the arm of the man on his right . |
| 59 | Isabel knew her heart had ceased beating because now it shuddered into action again , racing so fast that she began to feel faint . |
| 60 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |