Example sentences of "do not [vb infin] straight [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do n't ex just do n't go straight into that list . |
| 2 | She did not go straight to her bed . |
| 3 | He did not go straight to his destination . |
| 4 | When he got home to his flat , Greg did not go straight into his bedroom . |
| 5 | If the complete Porgy reveals anything , it is that Gershwin did not go straight from one hit to another ( as we did here , from ‘ Summertime ’ to ‘ A Woman is a Sometime Thing ’ ) . |
| 6 | You did not talk straight with me , out on the balcony . ’ |
| 7 | What he will not have overlooked is that Churchill — for 10 years ( between 1929 and 1939 ) , the only comparable ‘ outsider ’ within the Tory Party — did not vault straight into the prime ministership . |
| 8 | As a precautionary measure , however , do not head straight into the house , but allow the dog to come out to see you . |
| 9 | I am afraid that the Government do not have straight in their head the idea that the public will be determined , through a different Government , to obtain proper redress for their complaints against excessive prices or dirty little ideas such as the 0898 service , which was introduced six years ago after the privatisation of British Telecom . |
| 10 | Of course , these would be the ones who did n't make straight for the pubs . |
| 11 | It was the sort you sit up in , and there were two other people being taken home at the same time , so we did n't go straight to Fulham but did a detour through Kensington . |
| 12 | She did n't go straight from the house to the Station Hotel . |
| 13 | Oh that 's right , mm You did n't go straight from college overseas |
| 14 | Remember that IBM is very inbred , says Smith — can you think of anyone who works at IBM who did n't join straight from college ? |
| 15 | Cos you do n't start right next to those do n't go straight across the racecourse . |
| 16 | Now , if you 've got a block of exams , do n't go straight from one exam to the other . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't look straight at him like that , ’ Nick said . |
| 18 | Stitching does not pass straight through the layers but is ‘ offset ’ . |
| 19 | Similarly , once state socialism is abandoned , there is no third way around the market that does not lead straight to economic disaster . |