Example sentences of "[vb past] straight [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no wind and the smoke rose straight from the farm chimneys and the bare branches of the roadside trees were still as they stretched across the cold sky . |
| 2 | She headed straight for the coffee-pot . |
| 3 | They charged straight into the hall , leaving muddy trails from their shoes all across the new sports hall floor and , using their bags as improvised seating , proceeded to sit down still wrapped in their coats . |
| 4 | While Uncle Ted sat outside in the car Jean charged straight into the bedroom , pushing me aside as I tried to protect my parents ' privacy . |
| 5 | She drove straight to the manor-house in Surrey . |
| 6 | He steered the ten-year-old Daimler under the Dersingham arch and drove straight into the cathedral close at the same speed he 'd used to cover the miles from Oldfield . |
| 7 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 8 | I flew in yesterday , travelled up last night and this morning came straight to the scene . ’ |
| 9 | He came straight to the point in a rather superior manner , saying that he was a European federalist and that , in his opinion , it did n't matter a tuppeny damn whether industrial investments took place in Germany , France or the UK . |
| 10 | Ignoring the excuse for hysteria , Charity came straight to the point . |
| 11 | Doone arrived very soon after Tremayne had gone and came straight to the point . |
| 12 | Mrs Ridley , however , came straight to the point . |
| 13 | She tracked Ana to her room , a room further along the balcony , and in her usual manner she came straight to the point . |
| 14 | ‘ But Headmistress , the child only arrived in school this morning and came straight to the classroom … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , I came straight to the Met from school at eighteen . ’ |
| 16 | Then he came straight to the cause of the conference . |
| 17 | When you fell off the bottom of the bill at the Nash Pavilion , you came straight to the stage of the Moebius Strip . |
| 18 | But even if he chose lucky and came straight for the exit I had taken , I reckoned I could make at least twenty yards before he would open the door behind me . |
| 19 | Her winning entry , grillade de rouget , St Jacques et langoustines aux asperges vertes , huile d'olive et basilic , came straight off the carte at Les Abesses . |
| 20 | His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off . |
| 21 | A franchise bistro near her flat where the food came straight from the freezer to the infra-wave and the waitresses were on their way to something better and wanted you to know it . |
| 22 | ‘ I came straight from the shop . |
| 23 | Then the young boys and some of the men split off , leading their dogs on chains up a steep animal track that climbed straight to the heart of the forest . |
| 24 | For hapless Wales in the Royal Bank international at Murrayfield , it happened straight from the second-half kick-off . |
| 25 | We bought these two sloping chairs right and Tony , where our seats were there was a big light in the ceiling , a big round light there , and it shone straight in the side of me eye I said we ca n't sit here . |
| 26 | The home side were almost level just before the break , but after cleverly creating room on the edge of the box Gaughan fired straight at the keeper . |
| 27 | The home side were almost level just before the break , but after cleverly creating room on the edge of the box Gaughan fired straight at the keeper . |
| 28 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
| 29 | Thus ‘ Line ’ is for active electro-acoustics or magnetic-pickup guitars , and ‘ Hi ’ is for guitars with standard bugs or undersaddle pickups wired straight to the output jack , with no onboard tone controls . |
| 30 | Position one is the Strat-style neck pickup wired straight through the volume control and out to the jack , while position two gives you the same pickup but this time through the tone circuit . |