Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] straight [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 2 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |
| 3 | Then on Monday the chauffeur drove them straight to the theatre for the show . |
| 4 | Taxi driver Alan Macdonald was so enraged by Linda 's story that he drove her straight to the Daily Mirror . |
| 5 | Anger enabled her to see clearly now and drove her straight to the relevant point , eschewing futile denials . |
| 6 | The men took the digger from a nearby building site and drove it straight through the supermarket wall , shortly after four this morning . |
| 7 | Mr Cooper drove it straight into the barn and stopped next to Nebbins |
| 8 | I drove it straight round the corner and installed it in a costly carpark on Lexington and Forty-Third . |
| 9 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |
| 10 | ‘ As soon as some of our members received these letters , they threw them straight in the bin . |
| 11 | And there were some flats were n't there with the with Tommy on the w er Philip , that 's right , Tommy on one day and he , that pub , he picked a bloke up and threw him straight through the bloody pub window . |
| 12 | One father who lives in Harley Grove , Darlington , said : ‘ I threw it straight in the bin . |
| 13 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 14 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 15 | But then the full force of Luke 's home hit her straight between the eyes . |
| 16 | The noise guided him straight to the wharfs , down on the river side , for this part of the Suir is also an inland navigation up to Clonmel . |
| 17 | He then only needed a pitching-wedge and he hit it straight at the pin to about 18 feet or so . |
| 18 | At the 13th , a big sloping green , he studied my putt and said : ‘ Ah now , it 's a canny putt , son , but let me see … yes , hit it straight at the pin . ’ |
| 19 | She looked me straight in the eye . |
| 20 | Wilkerson looked me straight in the eye and said , ‘ You could kill me , Nicky . |
| 21 | And then he looked me straight in the face , ‘ One day , soon , Nicky , God 's spirit is going to deal with you . |
| 22 | Wilkerson took the cartons from us and looked me straight in the eye . |
| 23 | At one point during the meal , she reached over to me , put her hand on mine , looked me straight in the eye and said , ‘ I think you are a lesbian . ’ |
| 24 | But my prize for all time lack of observation goes to the old gentleman who , after walking past row upon row of fish tanks , stacks of fish food and eye-catching displays of pond accessories , looked me straight in the eye and said : ‘ Do you do cheese and tomato sandwiches ? ’ |
| 25 | The boys ' father Ben said : ‘ The lads took me straight to the baby and it was freezing . |
| 26 | He took me straight to the Rembrandt and talked about it , without lowering his voice , and I had the smallness to be embarrassed because some other people there stared at us . |
| 27 | The man took me straight to the Tabard . |
| 28 | Some houses frown ; some look indignant , prim or shy ; but this one looked you straight in the face and greeted you with a smile . |
| 29 | Mrs Bennett , large , matriarchal and down-to-earth , stared her straight in the face . |
| 30 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |