Example sentences of "[vb mod] come straight [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll come straight to the point , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll come straight to the point , Miss . |
| 3 | Now look everyone , I 'll come straight to the point , a lot of things simply are n't good enough . |
| 4 | Well , we had n't been wondering at all , we 'd come straight along the corridor , but of course he was speaking in a wider sense . |
| 5 | It gets more and more embarrassing to watch Dustin Hoffman coughing and limping as if he 'd come straight to the film from a Broadway theatre . ’ |
| 6 | By now I think mum and dad had gone home but they 'd rang Ian and he 'd come straight to the hospital and sat with me . |
| 7 | She had telephoned him as soon as she got home , and he 'd come straight to the villa , arriving in a whirlwind , his personality magnetic as always . |
| 8 | He 'd come straight from the fields , his smell was more what the child was used to . |
| 9 | ‘ But I would be obliged if you would come straight to the point , Captain Carew . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 11 | ‘ If I may come straight to the point , sir . |
| 12 | Communication to staff may come straight from the top , with the highest levels of management informing all employees of the move or top management may inform senior management who , in turn , hold meetings with supervisors to explain how and why the relocation exercise will take place . |
| 13 | ‘ In that case , Father , I will come straight to the point . ’ |