Example sentences of "went straight to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She arrived at work at a quarter to nine and went straight to the studio . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | We flew out on Saturday and went straight to the Mar Y Sol to meet Tanit the Island God . |
| 6 | When my grandparents came over , the next pay packet from my uncle and my father went straight to my grandfather . |
| 7 | ‘ Colin Chapman went straight to the point , ’ remembers Rudd . |
| 8 | With a moisture content of 14.5% , the grain went straight to the merchant . |
| 9 | ‘ He was woken by the smoke and heat and he alerted his sisters , then went straight to the telephone and called me . |
| 10 | We went straight to my home , and there , before my parents , Leslie pulled me on to his knee and said : ‘ Will you marry me ? ’ |
| 11 | When I left I went straight to Whitehall . |
| 12 | I think we forget , in these days , that in the Thirties a young person left school at fourteen , and in many cases , went straight to a job . |
| 13 | The belief , common to warrior peoples from Viking to Samurai , that the souls of those slain in battle went straight to heaven . |
| 14 | They returned to Egypt , where they went straight to the front after receiving replacements from the County . |
| 15 | The chamber was empty so Corbett went straight to his room , threw himself down upon his cot and fell into a deep and dreamless sleep . |
| 16 | Corbett continued into Inverkeithing and went straight to the ale-house where he had told Ranulf to meet him . |
| 17 | Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot . |
| 18 | One night of winter , with howling winds blowing and heavy rain lashing the streets , he arrived cold and wet at the Club , went straight to the bar as usual , and was given his usual drink by the bar man , ‘ Johnny ’ . |
| 19 | Those from the Kindertransporte with homes to go to — belonging to relatives , friends or sponsors — or to hostels , did not pause at Dovercourt but went straight to London , to a central distribution point set up by the RCM to the rear of the station concourse . |
| 20 | Her eyes went straight to the wicker chair by the window where a baby was just waking from its morning sleep . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , at one stage , one of Tony 's roadies — apparently a bit of an electronics whizzkid — wired the guitar to send the signal from one of the sockets to a transformer and into a mixer , while the other went straight to the amp . |
| 23 | I went straight to Donibristle where I found Lt. R.M. Smeeton ( later Vice-Admiral Sir Richard ) had already made great strides in equipping the new Fulmar IIs . |
| 24 | When he got there he went straight to the bank . |
| 25 | But unlike the young hero in Tom Brown 's Schooldays who stood up to his tormentor Flashman , Charles went straight to the headmaster . |
| 26 | He went straight to the practice putting green to cure a defect that has robbed him of a commanding lead . |
| 27 | He went straight to her , ignoring Asshe as that personage had never yet been ignored in his own house , or in fact anywhere ; and , of course , ignoring Selene . |
| 28 | WHILE Q IS AIMING FOR a young , hip and multi-racial clubbing audience , Victor Headley 's first novel Yardie went straight to the mainstream black audience . |
| 29 | He went straight to the nearest bar , where he remained until just after midnight . |
| 30 | We reached Mandalay and I went straight to the Winchester Mission where dear Willie Garrad looked shocked to see me and said in a scandalised voice , ‘ Oh , but you ca n't possibly stay here ’ — it was a Brotherhood you see ! |