Example sentences of "[to-vb] out [prep] sea " in BNC.

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1 Captain Faulknor was still concerned about the ship 's speed and said to Jenking , ‘ that it would be better to stand out to sea for the night . ’
2 This has been very clearly shown at Beachy Head where , between 1965 and 1976 a total of c. 70 Buzzards was recorded between 5 August and 27 October ; some were observed to depart out to sea .
3 But it was beautiful for all that , Lindsey decided , leaning against a wall to stare out to sea .
4 The miles of wet , corrugated sand were alive with dancing light , sparkling , glittering : it almost blinded you to look out to sea .
5 Paige allowed her gaze to drift out to sea .
6 There were as many as twenty-four vessels in Table Bay , all anxiously waiting to put out to sea ; boats loaded with African fruits for the London Market were in a sad plight , as the extra time on board would not improve the fruit .
7 But Grace would n't need them to go out to sea on the ebb tide .
8 ‘ It was a direct result of seeing the need for something different that could allow people to go out to sea no matter what the weather was like outside , that I went to see the lifeboat just over a year ago . ’
9 An inquest jury in Middlesbrough heard that at the time a module had been loaded onto a large barge ready to go out to sea .
10 A dredge chugging around the Cornish coastline will suck up , with equipment resembling a giant vacuum cleaner , the mining waste that previous generations of tin miners have allowed to flow out to sea in streams and rivers .
11 Adverse weather conditions , however , caused it to withdraw into shelter and while it was away the French fleet , consisting of eight sail of the line and 24 frigates under Admiral de Forbin , managed , on 8 March , to get out to sea unintercepted .
12 Before the British fleet was back in position Admiral Conflans was able , on 14 November , to get out to sea with 21 ships of the line and five smaller warships .
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