Example sentences of "[be] [verb] straight [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | ‘ Could the body have been dumped straight on to the shoal ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going straight on to the Guide Hut through the West Wood . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The meals can then be eaten straight out of the pack . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A momentary disorientation took him when he found that not only could he not move , but that he was staring straight up at the sky , and there appeared to be no ground underneath him . |
| 18 | It was dug straight out of the clay , including the profile for the undergravel filter — which was reinforced with boards and carpeting before the PVC liner was laid over it . |
| 19 | She was ushered straight on to the train at Paddington with her staff . |