Example sentences of "fast as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both got out of the jeep as fast as we could and sprinted in the direction of the slit trenches . |
| 2 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 3 | There were three people in front and two of us packing as fast as we could . |
| 4 | As fast as we could . ’ |
| 5 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 6 | On arrival at Edinburgh Airport , two Landrovers awaited us and our luggage , and we drove as fast as we could to Gleneagles , to try to be in time for the Moët et Chandon reception which is the first party of the Rolex-Jackie Stewart Challenge weekend ; this was timed for 8pm ! |
| 7 | We called and shouted and sailed our little boat as fast as we could . |
| 8 | Sometimes we got into a shoal of them and pulled them in as fast as we could handle the lines ; sometimes we failed to find any . |
| 9 | We ran after it as fast as we could . |
| 10 | ‘ We then ran as fast as we could and only minutes later the bomb went off . ’ |
| 11 | We crossed Holywell Road , Deep Ditch , and travelled as fast as we could around Charterhouse and Clerkenwell , keeping well clear of the city before taking the road south to New Cross . |
| 12 | It was very wet , getting worse , and I did n't feel that the patient could tolerate sitting out flood waters , so we moved as fast as we could . ’ |
| 13 | When news of the Bookman 's capture had spread , everyone dropped what they were doing and rushed to the library as fast as they could . |
| 14 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 15 | Slowly , as fast as they could , the Macleans shoved off for home . |
| 16 | The skirmishers in the fields had seen them now , and the French had started to withdraw , firing occasionally , but for the most part just running as fast as they could , to obtain cover amidst the village buildings . |
| 17 | Two of them disappeared without trace as fast as they could . |
| 18 | By the 1970s record manufacturers seemed to be forming new logos ( or trade-names ) as fast as they could , and the entry of hundreds of small independent companies added to the confusion . |
| 19 | The thin man said Crane should be left to make his own way so that the rest of them could ride as fast as they could down one of the tracks to the south . |
| 20 | Terror gripped the two men as they ran as fast as they could away from the ghostly train towards Elsham signal box . |
| 21 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 22 | Along Heygate Street last night there was n't a pedestrian in sight and cars drove through as fast as they could . |
| 23 | Then they ran down the stairs as fast as they could . |
| 24 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 25 | And those beetles of yours — the ones that could n't get home because the sheet was moving almost as fast as they could walk — that must be how it is for light moving through our space . |
| 26 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 27 | Sowerberry and Oliver , their work done , left as fast as they could . |
| 28 | Then the two of them ran round the corner as fast as they could . |
| 29 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 30 | The first full edition seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion , with names added as fast as they could be obtained , out of alphabetical order , and with an unreliable index . |