Example sentences of "come straight to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I may , I 'd like to come straight to the point . |
| 2 | ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I came straight to the Met from school at eighteen . ’ |
| 4 | He came straight to the point in a rather superior manner , saying that he was a European federalist and that , in his opinion , it did n't matter a tuppeny damn whether industrial investments took place in Germany , France or the UK . |
| 5 | Ignoring the excuse for hysteria , Charity came straight to the point . |
| 6 | Doone arrived very soon after Tremayne had gone and came straight to the point . |
| 7 | I flew in yesterday , travelled up last night and this morning came straight to the scene . ’ |
| 8 | Then he came straight to the cause of the conference . |
| 9 | Mrs Ridley , however , came straight to the point . |
| 10 | ‘ But Headmistress , the child only arrived in school this morning and came straight to the classroom … ’ |
| 11 | When you fell off the bottom of the bill at the Nash Pavilion , you came straight to the stage of the Moebius Strip . |
| 12 | She tracked Ana to her room , a room further along the balcony , and in her usual manner she came straight to the point . |
| 13 | ‘ Miss Maynard thinks you are suffering from post-natal depression , ’ he answered , coming straight to the point . |
| 14 | But at the eleventh hour I heard that Nigel 's stepbrother would be attending , driving up from Somerset and coming straight to the crematorium . |
| 15 | ‘ Ion Manescu , ’ said Tweed , coming straight to the point . |
| 16 | ‘ In that case , Father , I will come straight to the point . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If I may come straight to the point , sir . |
| 18 | ‘ But I would be obliged if you would come straight to the point , Captain Carew . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll come straight to the point , ’ he said . |
| 20 | It gets more and more embarrassing to watch Dustin Hoffman coughing and limping as if he 'd come straight to the film from a Broadway theatre . ’ |
| 21 | Let me come straight to the point . |
| 22 | By now I think mum and dad had gone home but they 'd rang Ian and he 'd come straight to the hospital and sat with me . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll come straight to the point , Miss . |
| 24 | And , on reflection , she might as well come straight to the point . |
| 25 | She had telephoned him as soon as she got home , and he 'd come straight to the villa , arriving in a whirlwind , his personality magnetic as always . |
| 26 | Now look everyone , I 'll come straight to the point , a lot of things simply are n't good enough . |
| 27 | It is simply that with direct insurance customers come straight to the company to buy their insurance , usually by phone . ‘ |
| 28 | Come straight to the point and keep to the point are the golden rules of letter writing . |
| 29 | They had suspected some wicked plot , and come straight to the town , and then to the marshes , to find me . |
| 30 | The girl , whose name is Marion Russell , comes straight to the point . |