Example sentences of "straight into [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I took him out for a walk and he went straight into a lamp post , ’ said Ray , of Clarence Chare , Newton Aycliffe .
3 But the taxi rank outside the hotel had been full and idle and the target had been straight into a vehicle .
4 They were just poling away and Matt shouted ‘ Hey , fellers , cut ’ but they did n't take any notice and I remember thinking maybe they 're testing the rope to see if it works , and Matt and I turned at just the same moment and saw where the Indians were heading us — straight into a pile of rocks and foaming water — and I knew the rope must have broken or something .
5 ‘ I 'm here , ’ she screamed , and digging her heels into Hermia , went straight into a gallop towards the helicopter , followed by 199 yelling Pony Club members , who fortunately veered off to the left , and did n't trample the new arrivals to death .
6 ‘ And while you 're getting out of there , you run straight into a patrol car and they arrest you after a chase .
7 A little startled , she looked up , and was more startled because Ven was much closer than she had thought , and she found she was staring straight into a pair of inscrutable and penetrating dark eyes .
8 This requires that answers be precoded so that the responses can be fed straight into a computer which has been programmed to receive them .
9 When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished .
10 Here you launch straight into a 120ft free abseil to a sea-washed rock platform , which serves as a base for a splendid two-pitch wall climb , finishing with a joyous ( and solid ) jug-pull , poised above the sea .
11 Eventually the Goblin runs out of energy and collapses in an exhausted pile with a silly grin on his face , or he crashes straight into a tree or other obstacle and ends up throttling himself with his chain .
12 They walked out into a cold , bright day , into one of the labyrinthine streets by the side of Westminster Abbey , straight into a column of knickerbockered children chattering hard and sweeping all before them .
13 At this time of year cuttings wilt rapidly , so pop them straight into a polythene bag and prepare them as soon as possible .
14 He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm .
15 ‘ … a Piece of flak must have hit the elevators as we went straight into a dive … ’
16 I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins .
17 Then some way along London Road she 'd run straight into a man .
18 I run up the hill , seeing movement ahead and assuming it 's a bird or a rabbit or something , and almost run straight into a man .
19 He ran off down the street straight into a policeman .
20 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 .
21 To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm .
22 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 .
23 Straight into a function and that function head will then s write to the client saying , I 've got it .
24 A convicted robber has come out of prison on parole … and walked straight into a job as a professional actor .
25 A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter .
26 We land just after one o'clock and get straight into a Jag jam-sandwich ( so a ford at both ends — ha ! ) .
27 Straight into a car . "
28 I tried four different combos , three power amps and DI'ed straight into a mixer through studio reference speakers , a pair of cheapo ghetto blasters and some ordinary domestic hi-fi speakers .
29 Negotiating a few cairns , falling into a stream or two , arid avoiding the tempting green sheep-track to the left that would lead you straight into a bog , you followed the pilgrims ' way ever downwards .
30 In the sister institute in the French-speaking Cameroon set up somewhat earlier at Yaounde , workers embarked more conventionally straight into a programme of materials production and were able to announce confidently that by March 1973 , ‘ about 47 tons of textbooks and 33 tons of documents have been produced ’ , but you can not profitably assess the success of a curriculum by weight ; many megatons of unprofitable material have been produced ( and will still be produced ) all over Africa just because no preliminary study had been made to ascertain whether children and parents wanted them , could afford them , read them or understand them .
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