Example sentences of "have [vb pp] straight from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been noted above that while the accepted Turkish tradition has rejected the Muftilik of Molla Yegan and has passed straight from the Muftilik of Molla Fenari to that of Fahreddin Acemi , there is evidence , part of which is the source chiefly used in formulating the Turkish tradition , to show that Molla Yegan did succeed Molla Fenari in his office of Mufti . |
| 2 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 3 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 4 | In striking contrast , both girls were immaculately clad : dressed in white blouses and white skirts , they could have stepped straight from the pages of Vogue . |
| 5 | It was bobbing up and down from the wash of a smart motorboat which had swept by , filled with haughty-looking Venetians with faces so medieval that they could have stepped straight from the history books . |
| 6 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 7 | I 've come straight from the hospital , and now I 'm on my way to St Mary 's , where I 'm due at five . |
| 8 | I 've come straight from the calving and I did n't even get a cup of tea when I 'd finished . |
| 9 | Urquhart had come straight from the office and was still wearing a grey suit with a red tie . |
| 10 | It seemed that the father had gone straight from the brothel to the River and drowned himself . |
| 11 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 12 | I have come straight from the event , and as your lordship sees , I have wasted no time in applying to you . ’ |
| 13 | He 's come straight from the heart of it . |
| 14 | 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 . |