Example sentences of "[conj] go straight to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decisive customer knows what she wants and goes straight to the counter to ask for the item she requires . |
| 2 | He might have to abandon his return to the pensione to change and go straight to the Stasi address . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With a white , set face , she left the office and went straight to the ladies ' powder-room , breaking down in private and crying silent , bitter tears . |
| 5 | We flew out on Saturday and went straight to the Mar Y Sol to meet Tanit the Island God . |
| 6 | Not having any time to think about it , Dave left work and went straight to the airfield . |
| 7 | ‘ He was in a hurry to catch a train and went straight to the platform , fully intending to buy a ticket on the train or at his destination , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 8 | The young man looked very pale and went straight to the door . |
| 9 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | She arrived at work at a quarter to nine and went straight to the studio . |
| 12 | Corbett continued into Inverkeithing and went straight to the ale-house where he had told Ranulf to meet him . |
| 13 | She turned away from Tracy Johnson and went straight to the woman in the chair . |
| 14 | Water plants first thing in the morning , or last thing at night , so that it does n't evaporate , but goes straight to the roots . |
| 15 | He stayed for lunch , and then at about two o'clock Bill and Faye arrived , the latter walking from the car to the house but going straight to the bedroom to lie down . |