Example sentences of "straight [adv prt] 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 ‘ They 'd just be straight through to Dad , if they took any notice of you .
12 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 .
13 Goes straight up to heaven and nothing more is heard of it .
14 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 .
15 Flights of birds disturbed by the sound of turning wheels rose from their nests and flew straight out to sea .
16 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 .
17 When the tide flows out , the current often flows straight out to sea washing any distressed windsurfer with it .
18 And the baby converts it straight back to blubber .
19 he went straight back to work
20 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 !
21 No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Skippety-hop , straight back to trauma land and the mangrove swamps of misery . ’
25 The old man 's voice cut through his sexual heat , brought him straight back to earth .
26 At which point she 'd stand , lay the magazine aside , and get straight back to business .
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