Example sentences of "straight [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll be going straight on to Midnight Mass , ’ Oscar said . |
| 2 | The survivors I have interviewed mostly remembered going straight on to piece-work and staying there , although in larger offices , like Clark 's , some experienced Women workers did become stab hands . |
| 3 | Yes , just go straight on to policy and resources , we we have to take it with the main motion , I mean if it 's passed it 's a s standing motion . |
| 4 | Rather than go straight on to drama college , she decided to take a year out to travel . |
| 5 | I was just , I mean did they really believe that it would , it would just lead straight on to socialism ? |
| 6 | While all this is going on , far away to the north the volunteers of the Royal Engineers have arrived and are getting straight down to work . |
| 7 | On this occasion , we got straight down to business . |
| 8 | It was straight down to business here . |
| 9 | I just took the lift straight down to reception and went home . ’ |
| 10 | I straight in to yellow or yellow to orange . |
| 11 | Turn straight away to page 6 to read all about Savings and Loans . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'd just be straight through to Dad , if they took any notice of you . |
| 13 | A radio paging system means staff can be bleeped when needed , all they have to do is go to the nearest intercom substation and they are straight through to reception or the management office . |
| 14 | She went straight home to bed . |
| 15 | ‘ I understand you 're going straight home to Mummy and I sha n't see you again until we meet in front of an altar … |
| 16 | Goes straight up to heaven and nothing more is heard of it . |
| 17 | He decided to live in Dorset and chose this site ( where an earlier house had been ) , because it looked for all the world as though , when the house was built , it could sail straight out to sea . |
| 18 | Flights of birds disturbed by the sound of turning wheels rose from their nests and flew straight out to sea . |
| 19 | ELISABETH DANZIGER STOOD AT THE OPEN window and watched the gulls swoop round the house , fly straight out to sea and then drop suddenly for prey . |
| 20 | When the tide flows out , the current often flows straight out to sea washing any distressed windsurfer with it . |
| 21 | And the baby converts it straight back to blubber . |
| 22 | he went straight back to work |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Skippety-hop , straight back to trauma land and the mangrove swamps of misery . ’ |
| 28 | The old man 's voice cut through his sexual heat , brought him straight back to earth . |
| 29 | At which point she 'd stand , lay the magazine aside , and get straight back to business . |