Example sentences of "straight to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture goes straight to my heart ; I should like to lean against that tree between the old man and the girl and listen while the youth played . |
| 2 | The opening carried me forward straight to the end . |
| 3 | Go straight to your room . ’ |
| 4 | So any docks , dandelions and creeping buttercup go straight to the tip and good riddance to them too . |
| 5 | But Lucy was a white-sailed trim-rigged yacht whose clean lines cut the waves straight to Jay 's heart . |
| 6 | Train for this with bent-leg sit-ups , changing the angle of the knee from nearly straight to heels tucked in tightly against the buttocks . |
| 7 | Now it could go straight to the byre . |
| 8 | She arrived at work at a quarter to nine and went straight to the studio . |
| 9 | After the object ( a toy car ) had been put at B , the boxes were locked ; with the result that most of the infants went straight to B , could not get in , and returned to A and tried to gain entry to a box which they could see ( whatever ‘ see ’ means here exactly ) was empty . |
| 10 | A minority of them never went to B at all , but went straight to A and searched , like the others , at a visibly empty space . |
| 11 | ‘ He knows what to do though — he comes straight to me , whining a bit . |
| 12 | Hundreds had evidently gone straight to the station in Prague without contacting the embassy . |
| 13 | The second paragraph goes straight to the core : Mr Zappala is a member of the 100 Team of Republicans , who chipped in with more than $100,000 ( £62,000 ) to elect Mr Bush . |
| 14 | ‘ The documents show that the companies will be able to go straight to the director general of water services for extra price increases , ’ he told the conference . |
| 15 | After four years in the Royal Artillery , Dignam was invalided out of the army and went straight to the Arts Theatre , where he was a delightfully tongue-in-cheek Shavian Angel and a foxy Claudius , proving Stanislavsky 's adage , as Agrippa in the Anthony Quayle/Edith Evans Antony and Cleopatra , that there are ‘ no small parts ’ . |
| 16 | Characteristically , he refuses to make any secret of his work with Brown , whose Olympic drugs ban has one more year to run ; nor , in loyal fashion , does he have any doubts that Brown will return to competition and go straight to the top . |
| 17 | We flew out on Saturday and went straight to the Mar Y Sol to meet Tanit the Island God . |
| 18 | Head straight to waymarked stile at end of fourth field . |
| 19 | He always saw straight to the point of an argument . |
| 20 | He had the merit of going always straight to the point — what is best for Christianity in England ? and besides that the scruples of air marshals , or the wishes of the Dean of York , or the comfort of Bell , or the scholarship of Ramsey , are nothing . |
| 21 | With the money I 'd saved I went over to France , going straight to where she was staying in Tours . |
| 22 | When my grandparents came over , the next pay packet from my uncle and my father went straight to my grandfather . |
| 23 | ‘ Colin Chapman went straight to the point , ’ remembers Rudd . |
| 24 | ‘ If you do , Mr Bardsley , come straight to us . |
| 25 | Do n't argue about it , come straight to us . ’ |
| 26 | He was in Iceland , fishing with friends , when he heard the news and flew straight to Windsor Castle , to a father who was still unable to help . |
| 27 | It struck me that in calling me his heavenly brother he had gone straight to the heart of all our missionary endeavours . |
| 28 | From West London straight to the top end of the British pop charts , Betty Boo is a pop star who 's definitely going places . |
| 29 | Since this line of flight would take them straight to the pioneer party of 200-300 already assembled on the traditional Witney site , I wondered whether this was their destination . |
| 30 | ‘ No , I came straight to the Met from school at eighteen . ’ |