Example sentences of "[adv] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We would cram into the homely little Wesleyan building — and those fervent , melodic sankeys would waft challengingly out to sea . |
| 32 | The bomber dropped from formation with smoke pouring from it and disappeared slowly out to sea . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Somewhere out to sea the beam of the lighthouse appeared intermittently as a misty glow in the sky and the fog-horn was sounding . |
| 35 | But by that time four of the enemy ships were wrecks , one was aground and two of the remainder sufficiently damaged to make it doubtful whether they would ever reach their home ports — which was most evidently the hope of the survivors , as they went through the difficult , desperate business of turning in the confined space and heading back out to sea . |
| 36 | The cameraman winked at her , and she shook her head laughingly and went back out to Reception . |
| 37 | Instead , grounded women shade their eyes and look resentfully out to sea . |
| 38 | Far out to sea lies the gannet colony of Grassholm . |
| 39 | In general , modern fishing is far too efficient for its own good , with ships often removing entire shoals in one sweep , far out to sea . |
| 40 | James had won the first round , though , suffering agonies of seasickness , he was in no mood to celebrate , while Admiral de Forbin , in an excess of caution , stood so far out to sea that they overshot their intended destination , Leith in the Firth of Forth , and instead made their landfall 60 miles [ 96 km ] north of Aberdeen and 150 [ 240 km ] from the real objective . |
| 41 | On goes the road in a series of turns and twists and interesting situations , with intriguing glimpses of the coast and the wide sweep of Eddrachillis Bay , and then the vast seascape is fully revealed as the road comes alongside the lovely Clashnessie Bay , bounded and sheltered in the west by a peninsula that thrusts far out to sea and ends at the rocky Point of Stoer . |
| 42 | From there I could see the other islands , and I could also see a boat , far out to sea . |
| 43 | She went towards him , for he seemed suddenly spent , a man getting old far out to sea , trying to swim . |
| 44 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 45 | Although fine material may be transported far out to sea in suspension , much of the coarser debris eroded from the cliffs or brought to the coast by the rivers accumulates on the beach , where it may be subjected to the constructive action of waves . |
| 46 | Far out to sea a trawler was motionless . |
| 47 | Terrible abuses to the environment , often carried out in remote places or far out to sea have been headlined on television and in the press . |
| 48 | I think it will be nothing less than a public scandal if the Queen takes the salute aboard the Royal Yacht far out to sea , as currently planned , without meeting at least some of these forgotten heroes in person . |
| 49 | Towards evening , Ian thought that he had better make certain that everything was in order , before the Colonel returned , and telephoned his friend : ‘ Now Ian , everything is just as fine as it should be ; you can tell the Colonel that his good lady will be well out to sea by now . ’ |
| 50 | Except in very calm and clear conditions flocks of birds are not easy to detect on the sea at any distance , and this , coupled with the shallowness of the water which may enable birds to feed well out to sea , probably results in many species being under recorded . |
| 51 | He went into the drink well out to sea off the island , by which time I was light on fuel and out of ammo . |
| 52 | Visibility was very poor and having been warned that barrage balloons were hoisted over the Liverpool area which had very recently suffered heavily in bombing raids , we went well out to sea before turning in to Speke , only to get entangled in a coastal convoy flying balloons . |
| 53 | Breeding on barren moorlands and tundra ; passing along coasts on passage , but well out to sea in winter , and rare inland after breeding . |
| 54 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 55 | Depends what you mean by ‘ weather ’ , but yes , the countryside of Sussex is constantly suffering the attack of rain and the rain either has to soak into the ground where very often it erm dissolves material and eventually finds its way to rivers so that all rivers are carrying material from inland in solution out to the sea , or if erm you get very heavy rain , then the water actually runs off the surface of the ground , and as it runs off it will carry particulate material out into the rivers and then out to sea . |
| 56 | She had turned away at once and gazed again out to sea . |
| 57 | For , while her pride was up in arms that plainly Ven would have preferred to take someone else out to dinner — had that ‘ someone else ’ been free — what was really getting to Fabia was nothing but common-or-garden , out-and-out jealousy . |
| 58 | ‘ I am just a little ship , ’ Aunt Emily said , ‘ drifting farther and farther out to sea . ’ |
| 59 | Fort Augustus offers two things worth relishing : that its canal provides a waterway down to Loch Oich and Loch Lochy and into Loch Linnhe and therefore out to sea and to Mull and Manhattan and Newfoundland . |
| 60 | Across the cove , about three hundred yards away , the house on stilts looked blindly out to sea , giving no sign of life . |