Example sentences of "quickly as [pron] could " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Gerald Sutherland , 41 , said : ‘ For a few seconds the doors were shut and people were really panicking , then they opened and passengers rushed out as quickly as they could . |
| 2 | Then they ran out of the saloon and up the backstairs as quickly as they could , to resume their game in the safety of the nursery . |
| 3 | For instance , one could not say that the nervous system had simply slowed down , as on occasion the subjects could produce responses as quickly as they could when rested . |
| 4 | At the same time , there was a rapidly expanding population , so house-builders constructed many small houses as cheaply and as quickly as they could ( without proper foundations ) . |
| 5 | Erm I do n't know the figures , but the feeling certainly was that everybody wanted to get out , and thy wanted to get out as quickly as they could . |
| 6 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 7 | Pupils were told to press the corresponding answer area on the concept keyboard as quickly as they could . |
| 8 | Atkinson said : ‘ We tried to forget about what happened at Coventry and put it out of our minds as quickly as we could . |
| 9 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 10 | I wanted to get away from the scene as quickly as I could . ’ |
| 11 | I hurried over as quickly as I could . ’ |
| 12 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 13 | I made myself scarce as quickly as I could . |
| 14 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 15 | ‘ I came as quickly as I could . |
| 16 | She then busied herself around the room , the implication quite clear : I was to drink up and get out as quickly as I could . |
| 17 | I made my preparations and joined him as quickly as I could . |
| 18 | ‘ All right , Eric , I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry , ’ I said as quickly as I could . |
| 19 | I got back as quickly as I could . |
| 20 | Charles turned to walk as quickly as he could down the steps and away without actually running , when a young woman appeared beside the butler . |
| 21 | The only thing to do now was finish the plane and get back to Gibbet Hall as quickly as he could . |
| 22 | He got out of the building and into the street as quickly as he could . |
| 23 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 24 | So Noah ran through the streets as quickly as he could to fetch the beadle . |
| 25 | So Moely turned , and swam back to the shore as quickly as he could . |
| 26 | He must get out of this house and out of these memories as quickly as he could . |
| 27 | Charles got round to the Stage Door as quickly as he could . |
| 28 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 29 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 30 | You got out as quickly as you could the next morning otherwise they could get into your skin . |