Example sentences of "[vb past] straight for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She headed straight for the coffee-pot . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Potter made straight for the peak and plummeted down the perpendicular drop : the lip curled over him and he was inside the tube . |
| 4 | It sniffed the air then made straight for the drum . |
| 5 | The Young Frog waved happily to the dancers and , ignoring his hostess , made straight for the Duke . |
| 6 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 7 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 8 | but I went straight for the directory . |
| 9 | Agnes knew the room and went straight for the telephone . |
| 10 | Impatient as ever I skipped the help and went straight for the action ! |
| 11 | Impatient as ever I skipped the help and went straight for the action ! |