Example sentences of "fast as he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clipped the lead on to the dog with cold hands which would hardly function , and let her pull him up the slope as fast as he could make his legs move . |
| 2 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 3 | Some Labour politicians , including Reg Prentice as a junior minister , wished them to be ‘ required ’ to do this ; Crosland preferred that they should be ‘ requested ’ , determined that empty threats should not be issued or implied and to go forward as fast as he could by agreement and persuasion . |
| 4 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |
| 5 | We learnt the next day he had had to hand in his uniform and get off the job as fast as he could . |
| 6 | He began — for the crowd , as the mood had shifted , alarming him ; some fights down there , a mass hysteria — to , fast as he could , in handfuls , what they wanted , throw out the decorations . |
| 7 | They ran towards them , Willie following as fast as he could , climbing over several small children on the way . |
| 8 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 9 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 10 | Tony went as fast as he could , and I was concentrating on staying on board as we rattled over the bumpy paths . |
| 11 | It was curling out around the edges of the large double doors and for a moment or two Benny stopped and stared , then with a shout of alarm he ran across the road as fast as he could and pulled on the hanging padlock flap . |
| 12 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 13 | The Rabbit jumped wildly , dropped the gloves and the fan , and hurried away as fast as he could . |
| 14 | Still the hired spider in the back clucked and unwedged himself as fast as he could to go and check his beloved bits and pieces by touch . |
| 15 | If Ellwood went to the house , Zeno got him out of the place as fast as he could . |
| 16 | Lord Alverstone recorded that when at the Bar he was able to read the sheets of correspondence almost as fast as he could turn them over , and he never required to read them twice . |
| 17 | Oliver , filled with anxiety , ran as fast as he could along the country roads and across the fields until , hot and exhausted , he reached the town . |
| 18 | The little bird was flying busily backwards and forwards as fast as he could , carrying pieces of dry grass . |
| 19 | He was running towards the station as fast as he could . |
| 20 | Then he turned and ran as fast as he could to catch up with Trung . |
| 21 | As soon as it lurched backwards , he stood up , ran the length of the bus as fast as he could and jumped over the wall . |
| 22 | Zahedi said he intended to settle the oil dispute with Britain as fast as he could , and the United States at once promised the loans that it had refused Mossadeq . |
| 23 | When the old man saw me , he shouted loudly and ran away as fast as he could . |
| 24 | The ladies of the town shrieked with laughter whilst Ranulf , his face flushed , hurried on as fast as he could . |
| 25 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 26 | At each shot he jerked the ‘ rifle ’ up as the recoil would kick it then re-aimed as fast as he could . |
| 27 | And then , without caring what the headmaster might think , he ran after Maisie as fast as he could . |
| 28 | Gabriel shook his head furiously ; then hurried back to the Mason as fast as he could go without spilling the liquor . |
| 29 | There is nothing in these two pieces that Eckard could not have written , but the sketchiness and even abruptness of their construction , the unenterprising harmony , and the lack of textural variety suggest that , if he did compose them , he dashed them off as fast as he could write for a pupil of little talent and not much discrimination . |
| 30 | ‘ Hang on , ’ he growled , and zipped the two sleeping bags together as fast as he could with shaking hands . |