Example sentences of "[verb] straight to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He then leaned forward and , looking straight to camera , continued : ‘ Except that little weasel Fletcher .
2 She had trained them to hold hands , walk straight to school and not to talk to strangers .
3 He jumped from the cart and came straight to Den .
4 Out in in he he 's going straight to gold is he ?
5 I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep .
6 ‘ Will she be going straight to bed ? ’
7 You 're going straight to bed .
8 I could n't argue with her , knowing I was in the wrong , so in a thoroughly bad mood I free-wheeled down the hill to the Waafery , determined to go straight to bed and to Hell with the dance .
9 I thought I told you to go straight to bed when I sent you home last night . "
10 She had said , peremptory as always , that he was to go straight to Room III , where " the miraculous stuff " was to be found .
11 He feels tired and goes straight to bed .
12 His version of mortalism distinguished between the soul , remaining with the body till the Last Judgement , and the spirit , which God quickened only in the elect and which returned straight to heaven .
13 You will be consigned straight to hell , where you will roast in eternal agony , never again to know any peace , and never to look upon the face of God .
14 It does n't mean The Wedding Present are boring people who go straight to bed after a show .
15 If so , ’ his voice thickened , ‘ let's go back to the hotel and go straight to bed ! ’
16 so he 'll , he 'll go straight , more or less down , have his tea and go straight to bed , so I 've got to go home and cook this
17 Go straight to bed .
18 Go straight to nan 's , call on the way back .
19 At the moment he seems to be veering towards the idea that if you did more good than bad during your life you go straight to Heaven , an arrangement which at least processes the merit of simplicity ; the rest sounds like something dreamt up by a vindictive bureaucrat on acid while closely inspecting something Hieronymus Bosch painted on one of his bleak but imaginative days .
20 It argues that the stricter probation conditions proposed will lead to more breaches of the orders , and at present a large proportion of those who breach go straight to prison .
21 Please go straight to Room 3.03 on arrival
22 Right well we we go straight to number one which is proposals will be required to avoid the greenbelt .
23 If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company .
24 Might go straight to court .
25 On this night he did not then go straight to bed .
26 I would go straight to bed after finishing my work with all my clothes on , including Uncle 's old tweed coat and socks .
27 I wish we could go straight to bed instead of this bloody reception ! ’
28 but Reggie , Reggie will come in and go straight to bed , he 's been up since about quarter to four
29 And did you go straight to school ?
30 Do n't let her bum in purgatory , dear God , let her go straight to heaven .
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