Example sentences of "went straight to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 2 | It was pretty late and I was tired , so I found my old room and went straight to bed . |
| 3 | We both wobbled then , through hours of stones and velvet dusk to the hut , where Sal went straight to bed , leaving me with two soups , two teas and a bottle of wine to deal with . |
| 4 | When Sgt Betty Hawkes returned from 34 HQ Communications , she went straight to bed . |
| 5 | ‘ I just came home , let myself in by the back door and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 6 | I went straight to bed but , of course I did n't know that my uncle was n't home . ’ |
| 7 | I got out of my wet clothes and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 8 | He came home late and , according to Lizzie , had a bath and went straight to bed . |
| 9 | It was late when they arrived at the old house and by tacit consent they went straight to bed . |
| 10 | When they had finished delivering all the presents , the reindeers returned to Greenland and Randolph went straight to bed , happily , because it was quite late for a reindeer . |
| 11 | But everything he hit went straight to keeper Tony Coton , except for a late penalty that hit a post . |
| 12 | And her thoughts went straight to Christmas . |
| 13 | The belief , common to warrior peoples from Viking to Samurai , that the souls of those slain in battle went straight to heaven . |
| 14 | It discarded purgatory and intercession for the dead , asserting that the damned went straight to hell and the saved directly to heaven . |