Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | And red-breasted merganser headed purposefully out to sea — as our four-hour boat trip came to an end . |
| 2 | Ruth looked doubtfully out to sea , wondering what he meant ; but then she began to see something , more with her mind 's eye than in reality , though she knew at once it was very real . |
| 3 | We whipped over the northernmost house , across the beach , and thus out to sea again . |
| 4 | The Me109s swept away out to sea and made no attempt to turn for a further attack . |
| 5 | But by the time they got to the beach , the ship was already out to sea . |
| 6 | The Marines were staring morosely out to sea , when a glimmer of unusual movement caught their eyes . |
| 7 | Guillemots and razor bills whirred rapidly out to sea , surface-dived for fish , and whirred back again to feed hungry chicks . |
| 8 | Christina struck out across the aquamarine water and swam quickly out to sea . |
| 9 | Only Røst lay further out to sea . |
| 10 | Here he was surprised and a little frightened to find that he was being carried further out to sea . |
| 11 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 12 | Even where the coast does not face directly towards the incoming waves refraction causes the waves to swing round and approach the shore less obliquely than they were when further out to sea ( Fig. 8.8 ) . |
| 13 | The wind was driving me further out to sea and my boat began to fill with water . |
| 14 | Originally it had gates and walls further out to sea . |
| 15 | In 1989 , for example , the problem of dirty beaches led to a government commitment to dump sewage further out to sea . |
| 16 | An oil rig tender also succeeded , after initial problems , in towing the tanker further out to sea to calmer waters , where the remaining oil was transferred to another tanker . |
| 17 | They also contradict the British government 's long-standing claim that pollution is worst along the coastlines and falls off further out to sea . |
| 18 | The extensive rescue operation involved the tanker being towed further out to sea , the use of powerful water cannons to cool the hull and the application of anti-flame foam . |
| 19 | He decided to live in Dorset and chose this site ( where an earlier house had been ) , because it looked for all the world as though , when the house was built , it could sail straight out to sea . |
| 20 | Flights of birds disturbed by the sound of turning wheels rose from their nests and flew straight out to sea . |
| 21 | ELISABETH DANZIGER STOOD AT THE OPEN window and watched the gulls swoop round the house , fly straight out to sea and then drop suddenly for prey . |
| 22 | When the tide flows out , the current often flows straight out to sea washing any distressed windsurfer with it . |
| 23 | He frowned and looked fixedly out to sea . |
| 24 | And the inter-island ship , the Nanasipau'u , which might have given me a lift up north , chose to ride out the wind in the lee of the island , unwisely put down both anchors , promptly snapped both chains and then drifted helplessly out to sea . |
| 25 | The trade winds weaken , the waters off the Ecuadorian coast are not pushed relentlessly out to sea , there is no consequent need for any replenishment . |
| 26 | We would cram into the homely little Wesleyan building — and those fervent , melodic sankeys would waft challengingly out to sea . |
| 27 | The bomber dropped from formation with smoke pouring from it and disappeared slowly out to sea . |
| 28 | For a minute longer father and son stood watching as the boat was rowed almost noiselessly out to sea ; and they were just about to return and make their way up the passage to the house when the sound of falling stones broke the silence of the night . |
| 29 | Somewhere out to sea the beam of the lighthouse appeared intermittently as a misty glow in the sky and the fog-horn was sounding . |
| 30 | Rodents came ashore mostly from sealing and whaling ships ; they survive well , mainly close to sea level , on all the main island groups north of the northern limit of pack ice . |