Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a wild wind out to sea . |
| 2 | Grace quickly rowed the boat out to sea again . |
| 3 | My master went back to his friends and we took the boat out to sea . |
| 4 | In Antarctica many such lakes occur inland , some on shelf ice close to sea level , others high among mountains or nunataks . |
| 5 | He kept his gaze out to sea . |
| 6 | I am warmed by an exhalation of spices and honey , but the words she speaks , as she flings the earring out to sea , cast me adrift in an ice-cold current . |
| 7 | I knew if I cut the anchor rope at the wrong moment , the Hispaniola would make a sudden move out to sea , and my boat might be knocked out of the water . |
| 8 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 9 | A mile out to sea Outside Pipeline was breaking . |
| 10 | RESCUERS last night told how they coaxed a man out of a suicide bid as he drifted half a mile out to sea in a child 's dinghy . |
| 11 | Mr Dunn , of Springvale Road , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was pulled about half a mile out to sea . |
| 12 | They would long ago have vanished but for the fact that a powerful tide daily takes most of this pollution out to sea . |
| 13 | Winds at the beach are perfect for novices , with enough stronger breezes to satisfy early intermediates , especially a short distance out to sea . |
| 14 | Often this has been done deliberately : factories and sewage works are built to discharge into seas and rivers , and ‘ honey barges ’ ferry cargoes of sewage out to sea . |
| 15 | Grants and available technology shall be provided for the avoidance of the crazy Victorian idea of pumping raw sewage out to sea . |
| 16 | Welsh Water is the only British water authority committed to ending the widespread practice of pumping sewage out to sea . |
| 17 | Unfortunately for Thacker the wind was offshore and instead of drifting over the island he went the opposite direction out to sea . |
| 18 | Tightening the butterfly nuts on these magnet limpets broke the glass phials , so setting chemical time-fuses ( see Appendix 3 ) before the raiders turned their canoe back to sea on a reciprocal course for the motor launch . |
| 19 | A mirage , a reflection of layers on air out to sea . |
| 20 | It is a switchback journey with many ups and downs and one particularly steep descent almost to sea level where Loch Nedd bites deeply into the coastline . |
| 21 | The sun was shining but there was a bank of cloud out to sea ; no discernible movement anywhere . |
| 22 | A 53-YEAR-OLD aircraft engineer rode on the tail of a light plane out to sea off New Zealand and back yesterday after it took off without the pilot knowing he was there . |
| 23 | Excellent location close to sea front , Conference Centre and all amenities . |
| 24 | I turned to Jim , sitting in the back , to congratulate him on our effort , then , over his shoulder , caught sight of a larger than usual dark crest out to sea . |
| 25 | From the tip of the headland and for some way out to sea the waves were breaking white against half-submerged fangs and stacks of rock that had in time past broken away from the main cliffs . |
| 26 | I took the standard right turn and watched as he stopped a little way out to sea , turned , and stared at us . |
| 27 | Sogono and I sat on the dock beside the cargo — the crafty old Bugi way out to sea — before restoring ourselves on sticks of shrimp satay and bowls of turquoise ice , yellow maize , red beans , and syrup . |
| 28 | I pulled the rubber almost to maximum and sent the ball-bearing and photograph hissing and spinning way out to sea . |
| 29 | As far as danger to the local population was concerned , it said that a ‘ North East wind is blowing across the Windscale factory and is taking any radioactive dust or vapour out to sea ’ . |
| 30 | She sat on the tool-box , pressing her hat to her head , and looking not this time out to sea but at all that was passing and being left behind . |