Example sentences of "straight from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is packaged in 2kg tubs and can be spread straight from the fridge . |
| 2 | Ashton 's Cock and Hens come straight from the farmyard and not the Imperial Ballet . |
| 3 | Its ‘ sacred grove ’ is a phrase straight from The Golden Bough . |
| 4 | A splash of mineral water — fizzy or still — gives a good pep-up after cleansing , but do n't use it straight from the fridge . |
| 5 | There are very few varieties of olives that would be suitable for eating straight from the trees as the fruits , especially the unripened green olives , are usually very bitter . |
| 6 | Plucked straight from the brine , the flavour of the olives can be overpowered by the salt . |
| 7 | They are flat strips cut from young shoots of the bamboo plant and can be eaten straight from the tin or stir fried . |
| 8 | For these people , the last word in radical chic is Brut Soap-on-a-Rope ; they dress as though they have stepped straight from the pages of a Seventies mail-order catalogue ; they consider a good night out to be crowding into the only working public telephone box , and , hyperventilating in their over-excitement , taking it in turns to listen to the talking clock . |
| 9 | The careful exegete , however , will also be troubled by the fact that the Bible hardly majors on this issue , that we do not know the context of Paul 's two references to the subject , and that a strong anti-homosexual line is only possible if one has already assumed that such statements are immediately transferable into our situation straight from the biblical period . |
| 10 | I say to you , coming straight from the Cabinet councils , the thing is not finished . |
| 11 | I spent the war with chaps who 'd come into the army straight from the dole queues . |
| 12 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 13 | One evident result of this , whatever others there might be , appears to be that much information about clients and potential clients is shared informally , so that , for example , information could come ‘ straight from the surgery ’ in advance of a more formal notification of the episode which triggered the eventual admission of the case outlined above . |
| 14 | We are very macho about it here , drinking straight from the bottle . |
| 15 | Down by the river the boys fish with rods cut straight from the surrounding forest and grill their catches on an open fire . |
| 16 | And not expecting everything to look as if it 's been lifted straight from the page of a glossy foodie magazine . ’ |
| 17 | [ Thomson , in fact , went straight from the presentation to find his portable typewriter and wrote an 800-word report on the British Open for an Australian newspaper . ] |
| 18 | Try instead to drink real fruit juice and spring or filtered water ( avoiding where possible the water straight from the tap which is full of chemicals ) . |
| 19 | These ideas of ours are draughts drawn straight from the vats of ecstasy . |
| 20 | I went straight from the station to the beach . |
| 21 | These engaged on rails on special purpose rail wagons , so that the trailer could be shunted straight from the road onto the railway wagon , secured , and transported by rail to its destination and picked up again by road tractor with the minimum handling at its destination . |
| 22 | For a time it seems water was pumped straight from the canal and/or from a well perilously close to it ( see 1840 plan ) . |
| 23 | Why , straight from the manufacturers , of course . |
| 24 | After a narrow escape straight from the start of the second half , when Carpenter screwed the ball wide from a good position , Farnham 's re-organised side played with growing authority . |
| 25 | Creamy Cappuccino in an instant ’ — straight from the account executive 's brief . |
| 26 | Food taken straight from the refrigerator is anathema to the cat — unless it is very hungry , in which case it will eat almost anything . |
| 27 | Serve straight from the freezer . |
| 28 | House wines are often served straight from the barrel . |
| 29 | Serve immediately straight from the soufflé dish . |
| 30 | Is every word in the Bible really straight from the mouth of God ? |