Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to 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 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it was beautiful for all that , Lindsey decided , leaning against a wall to stare out to sea . |
| 5 | The miles of wet , corrugated sand were alive with dancing light , sparkling , glittering : it almost blinded you to look out to sea . |
| 6 | Unable to effect a landing , the French satisfied themselves with an attack upon the Cawsand fishing fleet and were then compelled to put back to sea . |
| 7 | Paige allowed her gaze to drift out to sea . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But Grace would n't need them to go out to sea on the ebb tide . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had something of a Huckleberry Finn spirit , wanting to run away to sea . |
| 14 | Designed to entice thousands of turn-of-the-century tourists to run away to sea , the P&O Poster Collection will be at London 's Chelsea Harbour , 16 Dec-12 Jan ( 071–839 8533 ) — the perfect escape to faraway places with strange-sounding names if you 're visiting the Boat Show , 1–12 January . |
| 15 | Until he was fifteen he had private tuition which concentrated on classics and law , but in August 1803 he was able , with much difficulty , to break away to sea , entering the Royal Navy in 1803 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |