Example sentences of "and [vb past] straight [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 2 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 3 | When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished . |
| 4 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |
| 5 | He skirted a small lake and walked straight into a patch of quicksand He was up to his shins before he realised what had happened . |
| 6 | A convicted robber has come out of prison on parole … and walked straight into a job as a professional actor . |
| 7 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |