Example sentences of "was [verb] so fast [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tumbling so fast that the stars became blurred circles of light around him . |
| 2 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 3 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 4 | The car had rushed into view so unexpectedly and was moving so fast that Mary 's only chance of evading it was to jump . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 7 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 8 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 9 | It was falling so fast that rivulets of rain streaming down the window-panes made it difficult to see out at all . |
| 10 | Her heart was beating so fast that she felt out of breath . |