Example sentences of "[vb past] straight into [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been playing a Les Paul plugged straight into a Boogie Dual Rectifier , and this great ‘ 63 Telecaster I bought in Boston which might or might not be Ronnie Earl 's old guitar . |
| 2 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 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 | Pickets charged straight into the police riot shields . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The most pleasant surprise with materials was finding we could get ready-mixed concrete delivered and barrowed straight into the footings and foundations . |
| 7 | When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The specimen bored straight into a weed bed and Pike Anglers ' Club member Andy fought the fish for 15 minutes before beating it with size 8 trebles to 11 lb line . |
| 10 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |
| 11 | A narrow stairway of glossy marble led straight into a sitting room arranged around a huge open fireplace . |
| 12 | A side door led straight into a street . |
| 13 | A Ramsay ! ’ he led straight into the ranks of stationary horses . |
| 14 | He proceeded to explain the Plan , starting with a brief review of the world components market which positioned Europe to the rest of the world and led straight into the Plan . |
| 15 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 16 | Suddenly , they both jumped up , pulled off their remaining cotton restrictions and plunged straight into the water . |
| 17 | He just plunged straight into the crowd and started chatting with people . |
| 18 | I had n't ridden a bicycle in thirty years and was none too confidently negotiating the potholes , when suddenly an incredible-looking blue-black bird with a ridiculously long tail flew across the track — and I rode straight into the ditch ! |
| 19 | So I got straight into the car and headed south , hoping I could reach Carlisle before the train did . |
| 20 | There was no response and the meeting continued on another tack until a man came from the back of the room with a story about how he had , in the pitch black night , walked straight into a lamp post on his way home the night before : hence the severe head pains . |
| 21 | A convicted robber has come out of prison on parole … and walked straight into a job as a professional actor . |
| 22 | He skirted a small lake and walked straight into a patch of quicksand He was up to his shins before he realised what had happened . |
| 23 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 24 | He pushed the door open and walked straight into the parlour , where he came face to face with an overweight , half-shaven man dressed in a vest and trousers who was brandishing an open razor . |
| 25 | They 'd taken pride in planning for every eventuality , but there was nothing much they could do when an oncoming driver had a heart attack at the wheel and steered straight into the path of their Rover saloon . |
| 26 | They spent three months building a mock aircraft — and it nose-dived straight into the sea . |
| 27 | Golf and fishing are the national sports of Scotland , for both male and female , and I remember Mother , who was also a moderate golfer , fishing on a river adjacent to a golf-course , avoiding the balls flying past her head , many of which flew straight into the river . |
| 28 | They were flying the Liberators in for the big daylight raids on the Ruhr and one of them flew straight into the field where Grandad was working , planting carrots for the war effort . |
| 29 | Such blood , and the mud of Culloden , were the last Gaelic colours to fly over Scotland ; the clans looked straight into the mouths of Cumberland 's cannon and died , and with them expired a way of life — the Stewarts of Appin , and the Maclarens , and the Camerons , and the Atholl Brigade , and behind them Ogilvies , and behind them the prince himself . |
| 30 | Lucy looked straight into the camera with a look she had taken — and still , against the odds — with a look Jay thought of as love . |