Example sentences of "straight back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the baby converts it straight back to blubber . |
| 2 | he went straight back to work |
| 3 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 4 | No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again . |
| 5 | These wishes go straight back to childhood , and so religion represents a transference from childhood and a kind of emotional infantilism in which people try and make out that they 're still children , as it were , even though they , even though they really are n't . |
| 6 | There is not much other evidence for any kind of standing army : the classic historians of the fifth century speak of the Ten Thousand ‘ Immortals ’ , but that word is now thought to be a mistranslation of an Old Persian word meaning ‘ followers ’ , which takes one straight back to feudalism . |
| 7 | Skippety-hop , straight back to trauma land and the mangrove swamps of misery . ’ |
| 8 | The old man 's voice cut through his sexual heat , brought him straight back to earth . |
| 9 | At which point she 'd stand , lay the magazine aside , and get straight back to business . |