Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zeno had looked out to sea while a few words were exchanged , then laid a hand on Carey 's arm , as if about to hurry him along . |
| 2 | In August 1952 the innocent-looking East and West Lyn rivers swept down into the Devon resort of Lynmouth , obliterating houses and removing all trace of the Beach Hotel , which was carried out to sea . |
| 3 | One house , inhabited by a British family called Tatlock , was carried out to sea whole . |
| 4 | Some spend their time inland on headwaters where streams are small and flows are low , while others work on predominantly tidal rivers where dilution is easily achieved and any pollution carried out to sea . |
| 5 | And that he was meant to be carried out to sea . " |
| 6 | So that he 'd be carried out to sea by the tide without coming to the surface . " |
| 7 | The resultant mass of land , beach and shallow water sediments is just as violently carried out to sea and dumped . |
| 8 | Drivers who continue trying to ply their trade are having their rickety three-wheeled becaks carried out to sea and dumped . |
| 9 | , there were of course two deaths , Piggy and Simon , the bodies of whom were carried out to sea by the current . |
| 10 | A processing plant at Gwithian will extract from the mud tin oxide which , over the centuries , has channelled out to sea as waste from mines New Scientist 21 April , p 159 ) . |
| 11 | Research in the USA , however , has shown that the HIV virus can survive , in insufficiently treated sewage which has been pumped out to sea , for up to 12 hours . |
| 12 | The south coast of Devon bulges into the Channel between Exeter and Plymouth as if being pushed out to sea by the bulk of Dartmoor and reaching out towards France . |
| 13 | From the masthead Tilda , having sailed out to sea with Grace , took a closer survey of the Reach . |
| 14 | Furthermore , a body lost in Portsmouth Harbour a year previously would have washed out to sea long ago and , in any case , would be unlikely to have turned up in Chichester Harbour . |
| 15 | By 1700 the full extent of the disaster had become clear , and in 1713 , the Denver sluice , the key to the whole system , was washed out to sea . |
| 16 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 17 | In 1803 the chapel was very badly damaged by flood , and the image of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres was washed out to sea . |
| 18 | The flight lasted over an hour as the plane was flown out to sea , returning over Fleetwood , then back to Blackpool . |
| 19 | This would eliminate the worst cases of cruelty and would substantially reduce the number of whales killed , as only those beached would be gaffed and killed , and the rest could be driven back to sea . |
| 20 | ‘ Where fishermen once set out to sea , now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores . ’ |
| 21 | Where fishermen once set out to sea , now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores . |
| 22 | Jane found solace in the humour and support of the local people : Davyd , Meryvn , the clever Henry , aged sixty-eight but very spry , who had run away to sea at fifteen , and did everything so well and systematically — shipshape , in fact . |
| 23 | Rory thought now that his brother must have exaggerated the story , made it more horrific than it really had been , and he certainly did n't believe that Lachy had run away to sea just so that he could wear an eye-patch and pretend he was a pirate . |
| 24 | If she could only keep the secret a week or two more it might be possible , after her uncle had gone away to sea , to persuade her Aunt Ann to let them marry . |
| 25 | Perhaps she would learn a little more from them when Harry had gone off to sea again , an event she had learnt , over the years , to look forward to . |
| 26 | On this occasion Crabb was carrying out experiments in which the Admiralty had a peripheral interest , but it would not be in the national interest to detail them , and unfortunately he drowned and his body was swept out to sea . |
| 27 | ‘ Folk must have been swept out to sea . |
| 28 | Then their killers dumped the bodies into the Indian Ocean , hoping they would be swept out to sea and eaten by sharks . |
| 29 | It 's a great place for beginners to learn as the harbour has shallow water — only 40ft at its deepest point — with constant winds and protection from being swept out to sea . |
| 30 | As the survivors are swept out to sea , so the larger fish , trawling with open jaws , sieve them from the water . |