At seven o'clock the next morning he woke up and exclaimed, "Oh no!!! My wife's dinner party!!!" He gathered all his clothes, put them on real fast, grabbed his bucket, and ran out the door.
Belgium industrialised fast; grabbed a large part of Africa and ruled it particularly rapaciously; was itself invaded and occupied by Germany, not once but twice; and then cleverly secured the headquarters of what is now the European Union.
Last year, when the United States introduced a resolution against Sri Lanka, India was reluctant to back it for strategic reasons, including that it has commercial interests in Sri Lanka, which China is fast grabbing.
Long accustomed to adding some 50 new products to its merchandise mix every week on average, the conbini are fast grabbing hunks of cyberspace to expand its limited shelf space.
Texas Instruments is fast grabbing market share in the $30 billion analog chip business, translating real-world signals into ones and zeros digital computers can understand.
For those looking to rent, the idea is that you'll need to be first, and fast, grabbing a place before others know about it.
A robin close by ready for a fast grab-and-run in the event an apple is discovered.
Each title is a limited edition and they sell out fast, so grab them while you can.
Along with a newly enriched investment class, business leaders in the South are on the move, tapping into the readily available funding and expertise they need to grow, and scaling up fast to grab once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
It could be set in a lot of other places in a country that knocks young girls off their feet with waves of consumer fetishism, the need to be cool, to be fast, to grab the attention of boys — in general, to compete every day in a marketplace of desire so relentless that they can imagine no real happiness outside of it.
