Example sentences of "[vb past] straight from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no wind and the smoke rose straight from the farm chimneys and the bare branches of the roadside trees were still as they stretched across the cold sky . |
| 2 | The smoke rose straight from the chimneys . |
| 3 | The old tennis court was transformed , John confesses , with ‘ an idea that came straight from Vita Sackville-West : four white prunuses in a white garden . |
| 4 | It was at Shoom that Danny first met Steve Eusebe , the tall , dreadlocked singer who fronts the single , a mellow house groove with deep , soulful vocals that you would swear came straight from a gospel-trained Chicago house singer if you had n't already caught the London inflections . |
| 5 | That came straight from my early conditioning , my relationship with my mother and the fact that I have always found it easier to give than receive . |
| 6 | His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off . |
| 7 | A franchise bistro near her flat where the food came straight from the freezer to the infra-wave and the waitresses were on their way to something better and wanted you to know it . |
| 8 | ‘ I came straight from the shop . |
| 9 | The Moslems would n't accept it if it came straight from him . ’ |
| 10 | Prior to C U I came straight from University , so , I assumed Business Data Course . |
| 11 | Been with C U for about two years last September , er started management training , came straight from University , erm , tt several section section head erm , starting with with various instructional outside they call it process control . |
| 12 | You see , you take Mr , splendid policeman , he came straight from the Guards into lodgings in Ipswich . |
| 13 | He had built it out of practically nothing for the local amateur dramatic society and it had sat resplendently on the stage like something fetched straight from the nearest wood , so real , yet with touches of the bizarre , so brown , so greyish , so admired , so solid . |
| 14 | For hapless Wales in the Royal Bank international at Murrayfield , it happened straight from the second-half kick-off . |
| 15 | Nineties city urchin with long fringe brushed straight from the crown by Gianpiero at Toni & Guy |
| 16 | A rich , easily made mousse , served straight from the freezer . |
| 17 | He walked straight from the 18th green to the 10th tee . ’ |
| 18 | Three minutes later Jackson broke straight from a scrum and Perry 's pace put him clear to score . |
| 19 | The dress fell straight from her shoulders to a hem midway down her shins in a long , vertical line . |
| 20 | The third night he went straight from work to a wine bar . |
| 21 | Michael Jarvis , Carroll House 's trainer , went straight from Paris to Ireland for the bloodstock sales , but Jim Hiner , his secretary , said yesterday : ‘ The vet has confirmed that the cut is only superficial . ’ |
| 22 | But when light-food pairings were given in the test phase , latent inhibition was observed ; subjects given this treatment acquired the CR no more rapidly than control subjects that went straight from pre-exposure to conditioning without an intervening retention interval . |
| 23 | She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans . |
| 24 | [ Thomson , in fact , went straight from the presentation to find his portable typewriter and wrote an 800-word report on the British Open for an Australian newspaper . ] |
| 25 | I went straight from the station to the beach . |
| 26 | As was common at the time , William went straight from school into the merchant navy and he was seldom at home throughout his teenage years as he sailed the oceans of the world , learning the skills of seamanship and navigation . |
| 27 | In his head you probably went straight from one to the other . |
| 28 | He went straight from the station to the Keizersgracht where his uncle and aunt lived . |
| 29 | ‘ I went straight from school to the Inland Revenue , ’ she says . |
| 30 | And he went straight from this place , to catch his plane ? ’ |