Example sentences of "[be] [verb] straight [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They say who they want to send it to , add a few notes , send it off and are dropped straight back into the spreadsheet . ’
2 erm Oh definitely yes , I mean when we 're trying to play passes over the top of their defence and they 're getting cut or they 're going straight through to the goalkeeper , it 's very frustrating for us , but really it 's just a case of plugging away and trying to get things to come right .
3 So you 're going straight on to the football are you ?
4 He 's off on one of his jaunts with Sexy Lexy , and then they 're going straight down to the country for the weekend .
5 No but I mean I I I was planning on having a break in the middle but y most of you voted and you wanted a break at the start but perhaps it would 've , but then you you 'd have been going straight on from s w phonetics
6 I 've had a couple of nice chats with the people at GMTV , but I told them I was n't in a hurry to decide what I would do next and frankly I do n't envy the people who are going straight on to another show . ’
7 While all this is going on , far away to the north the volunteers of the Royal Engineers have arrived and are getting straight down to work .
8 ‘ Could the body have been dumped straight on to the shoal ? ’
9 ‘ I 'm going straight on to the Guide Hut through the West Wood . ’
10 ‘ I 'm going straight on to a gig . ’
11 ‘ If she 's downstairs when I get home , I 'm going straight up to my bedroom ! ’
12 ‘ I 'll be going straight on to Midnight Mass , ’ Oscar said .
13 One way is to change the angle of the shot so that the light comes cross-wise and hence will not be reflected straight back to the camera .
14 One has only to listen to the forthrightness of ‘ Surely , He hath borne our griefs ’ or the intricate virtuosic weaving of parts in ‘ And he shall purify ’ or ‘ All we like sheep ’ , to realise that this is a choir or rare quality and precision which should be dragged straight back into the recording studio to commit to posterity its undoubtedly sublime view of Handel 's great choral masterpieces , Solomon and Israel in Egypt , or the earlier but no less demanding Dixit Dominus .
15 They come in a great many varieties and can be mounted straight on to a ceiling , on to walls or on to tracks , and then pointed towards whatever needs special lighting .
16 The meals can then be eaten straight out of the pack .
17 In April the Accounting Standards Board proposed that provisions for future losses and reorganisation costs after an acquisition will no longer be allowed to be taken straight out of the balance sheet of the purchaser 's accounts , without passing through its profit and loss account .
18 He said when Mr Jones was taken to hospital to have his injuries looked at and photographed , he did not take the opportunity to be taken straight out of the Roberts ' home .
19 He explained that the lager was manufactured by the Danes , an ancient seafaring people , to be drunk straight out of the can , so that the bubbles would move straight up and down in the stomach to counteract the sideways rocking movement of the boat .
20 Raw data can be plotted straight on to such paper , as shown in figure 11.6 .
21 Yet plunging cliffs , i.e. those whose profiles are continued straight down below the sea , are free from notches , benches and other forms of wave action .
22 It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it .
23 There is a popular misconception that long-stay patients were dumped straight out of mental hospitals on the streets when they were abandoned .
24 Even 40 years ago , Thames river police who fell into the river were taken straight off to be stomach pumped .
25 If someone at the back of the party slips , the load is transmitted straight through to the leader rather than pulling direct on the intermediate members .
26 ‘ He tells me he is going straight on to Australia to see Greg , ’ Hugo said .
27 His sandy hair is brushed straight back over his head , but then turns up a little at the ends , echoing the collar .
28 Come the next time that sector is needed — assuming it has n't been discarded to make way for more recent data — it 's pulled straight out of RAM rather than through the comparatively slow disk system .
29 Mike Sadler was flown straight back to the Eighth Army and assigned the task of navigating the New Zealand Division around the south of the Mareth line , while Cooper was able to enjoy the pleasures of Constantine with an old friend , Reg Seekings , who had made his way through after the B Squadron attacks on the road .
30 And suddenly , as an uproar began in her , Azor was forgotten , and she jerked to stand upright , and found she was looking straight up into a pair of dark smouldering eyes .
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