Example sentences of "[pron] straight [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 2 | I straight in to yellow or yellow to orange . |
| 3 | Its straight up that side — ’ he waved his clipboard at the hill — 'but it twists this side . |
| 4 | O'er ladies ' lips , who straight on kisses dream , |
| 5 | If it does I 'll be on to you straight on the phone . |
| 6 | After enquiring about her journey and whether the hotel was comfortable , he said abruptly , ‘ I have another appointment shortly , so it might be best to take you straight over to the palazzo , where you will be working . ’ |
| 7 | You go up , you go round , you come down and there is the old Pawnee , waiting to take you straight up again . |
| 8 | And David says that your husband is a doctor : he ought to have sent you straight up to the mountains . ’ |
| 9 | Okay , well now er I er le tell you straight up ? |
| 10 | Well , I 'll take you straight up to Hilda 's room , and then I 'll make you a nice cup of tea . |
| 11 | Got to get Christine off to school first and then drop you straight up there . |
| 12 | Even taking into account the fact that you 're dead , really … ask yourself , if I asked you straight off — I 'm going to stuff you in this box now , would you rather be alive or dead ? |
| 13 | That I should n't have swept you straight off to the church ? |
| 14 | PHLIPPA DAVENPORT 'S RIB-STICKING RECIPES WILL TAKE YOU STRAIGHT BACK TO YOUR NURSERY DAYS |
| 15 | ‘ When the travel arrangements are settled I 'll drive you straight back to your hotel . |
| 16 | I kept trying to make you see that something exceptional was happening , but I could n't tell you straight out because love , my darling , left me without defence . |
| 17 | We had a class composition , My Best Friend , and the girl who was describing me put up her hand and asked to borrow a ruler because she said she 'd have to draw me straight up and down . " |
| 18 | Kiss me straight on the brows ! |
| 19 | Val did a brilliant job getting everyone else to Le Bourget using public transport ; I went on the bike with no map and only a vague idea where Le Bourget was , and every Frenchman I asked just waved me straight on ( lies ! ) , but I got there somehow and we had a very enjoyable , if unscheduled , visit . |
| 20 | ‘ I had no idea of Rangers ’ enormity and the depth of the supporters ' expectations , and Walter put me straight on both counts . ’ |
| 21 | She asked me straight out once what it was , but I did not want to tell her yet . |
| 22 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 23 | And I took it to my bank manager who I 'd been with for God knows , all my life , so nearly twenty years , and er he just laughed me straight out of the room . |
| 24 | It knocked me straight out of paradise and back into reality . ’ |
| 25 | It took me straight back to Cyprus where we lived when I was a little girl . |
| 26 | Which took me straight back to my young friend on the terrace , for whom only the numbers count . |
| 27 | If he caught me escaping he 'd put me straight back down here . |
| 28 | On no , I was older then you see , I was er I was , they sent me straight back into the splitting shop . |
| 29 | ‘ Please take me straight back to London . ’ |
| 30 | Make sure you do n't put them straight on the table though . |