Example sentences of "go [adv] to sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 2 | By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it . |
| 3 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 4 | The quay was deserted ; soon the Black Pig was floating out on the falling tide , and for once as they hoisted the mainsail the crew were well pleased to be going back to sea . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going back to sea , ’ he said later . |
| 6 | Moved by such squalor , volunteers from HMS Gloucester renovated an orphanage in just eleven hours , before going back to sea and action stations . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | She felt now that her future was settled : her uncle would soon go away to sea ; Tristram would be freer to be seen in her company and perhaps , if her prayers were answered , they would be able to persuade Aunt Ann to let them be married . |
| 12 | If only his father would go away to sea ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | , Sir William ( 1745–1816 ) , vice-admiral , had obscure origins : neither his place of birth nor his parents are mentioned in the Naval Chronicle 's report of his death , but it is probable that he went early to sea , since on joining the Dolphin on 8 July 1766 he was rated able . |
| 15 | But Jamie longed for adventure and , while still a boy , he joined the crew of a boat at Ayr harbour and went off to sea . |
| 16 | From its lofty position one can see the parish of his birth , the route by which his mother took him to Ayr , the town of Ayr in which he ran errands as a boy , the harbour from which he went off to sea , and all of the land that was his estate of Orangefield . |
| 17 | But Charles dithered and went off to sea . |
| 18 | But at last , after three hours ' hard work , all ninety-nine were on the ship , and the Fram went out to sea again . |
| 19 | Every day he went out to sea in his little boat and caught fish ; every night he cooked and ate the fish ; so he lived . |
| 20 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |