Example sentences of "[verb] straight [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room . |
| 2 | Flint walls , often up to three feet thick , were usually built straight on the ground without foundations , with a central hearth , the fire either laid on the earth floor or , if better off , a large stone slab . |
| 3 | The table did for working and eating ; the mattress ( put straight on the floor and covered in black tweed ) did for sleeping and lounging ; and the steps made extra seating areas as well with the help of large flat black or white cushions which stacked like striped playbricks when not in use . |
| 4 | The next thing I knew I was looking straight up the barrel of this gun because the Fairey Fox was no more than 12ft away from the cabin and the pilot was very annoyed . |
| 5 | It was the sort of weapon that you saw John Wayne wielding so well and twisting round his finger , but I did not like the idea of this thing which I was looking straight up the barrel of . |
| 6 | Hazel reached the hedge , crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long , shadowy aisle between two rows of beans . |
| 7 | Climb straight up the V-groove to ledges ( more fulmars ) than take the short crack above or the ramp on the left to finish . |
| 8 | Without any fuss they were setting up a machine-gun while a party came straight up the hill towards the ambush positions . |
| 9 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 10 | Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole . |
| 11 | You know little kids coming out of school and going straight on the road . |
| 12 | Predictions of how the duo will fare in America still vary , but one argument goes straight down the hole tonight . |
| 13 | Then the Trunchbull turned to us and said , ‘ From now on , anybody caught eating in class goes straight out the window . ’ |
| 14 | Sampson feels ‘ a very great aversion ’ to Slinkton as soon as he sees him : ‘ His hair , which was elaborately brushed and oiled , was parted straight up the middle ; and he presented this parting to the clerk , exactly … as if he had said , in so many words : ‘ You must take me , if you please , my friend , just as I show myself . |
| 15 | Earlier , the full-back , apparently incensed at being called off just three minutes into the second half , turned away from the bench and sprinted straight down the tunnel . |
| 16 | Erm but er we 've had one or two people come to us , and report that they 've been mugged , there again we get straight on the phone to the police . |
| 17 | It 's not strong on positive imagery ; the front cover photo stares straight down the barrel of a gun ; and the book 's hero , D , is a crack-addicted rapist , killer and drug baron . |
| 18 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 19 | AT the same time , he delivers the ball with his front ( right ) foot pointing straight down the pitch while the other foot trails back towards his bowling mark . |
| 20 | It was a brown derby , worn straight on the head without an air . |
| 21 | On Lock Maree Crag he climbed the heavenly line of Arial , E3 5c with George Ridge , which blasts straight up the central crackline in the massive 50-metre pitch . |
| 22 | The Route : A thin crack running straight up the pass to left of the obvious ‘ rainbow ’ feature . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'll be coming straight up the middle , wo n't they ? ’ |
| 24 | The next day was bright and cold , with a stiff breeze blowing straight down the field . |
| 25 | will go straight out the window and they wo n't bother with us , a very short time it 's taken five I mean six years to build up the credibility |
| 26 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |
| 27 | Some people I know would revel in being able to say they looked straight down the barrel of a loaded gun . |
| 28 | Most of them , to judge by the paw marks , had gone straight up the ride , not working the covert on either side at all . |
| 29 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 30 | He left school and went straight on the dole , like Derek probably will . |