Example sentences of "have [verb] straight from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems an odd time to be holding a political meeting , and Neil may have to come straight from the Palace , but the organisers say that all the participants have pledged to attend . |
| 2 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 3 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 4 | In striking contrast , both girls were immaculately clad : dressed in white blouses and white skirts , they could have stepped straight from the pages of Vogue . |
| 5 | It was bobbing up and down from the wash of a smart motorboat which had swept by , filled with haughty-looking Venetians with faces so medieval that they could have stepped straight from the history books . |
| 6 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |