Example sentences of "[noun sg] out to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was a wild wind out to sea .
2 One Sunday afternoon we took a trancelike ride in the car out to Roxbury , and parked , and strolled the streets , and there she was , standing at her front door in a blue dressing-gown with her arms folded and with a look of amused reproach on her face .
3 I thought when we did we did that programme out to lunch in the summer and you came along and we talked all about buses and er your organization and I I I was very nice to you actually .
4 Grace quickly rowed the boat out to sea again .
5 My master went back to his friends and we took the boat out to sea .
6 He kept his gaze out to sea .
7 As a public corporation ( 'epic ’ ) , it acted for the state in contracting work out to arms and electronics manufacturers .
8 Thanks to Alix 's cash donation , Zambia was able to ride the highwire out to Roirbak 's workshops .
9 He is holding the plastic tub out to Keith .
10 I am warmed by an exhalation of spices and honey , but the words she speaks , as she flings the earring out to sea , cast me adrift in an ice-cold current .
11 Within the large car plants themselves , where the unions were strong and the companies were able to offer a relatively stable employment policy by shifting the troughs and peaks in the work-load out to sub-contractors , management had adopted what Friedman termed the ‘ responsible autonomy ’ strategy .
12 Library or no library , he would take Marigold out to dinner .
13 I knew if I cut the anchor rope at the wrong moment , the Hispaniola would make a sudden move out to sea , and my boat might be knocked out of the water .
14 Er just I 've been a Hibs supporter for forty four years now following them and er I do n't think , I do nay fancy a move out to Ingleston .
15 The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood .
16 A mile out to sea Outside Pipeline was breaking .
17 RESCUERS last night told how they coaxed a man out of a suicide bid as he drifted half a mile out to sea in a child 's dinghy .
18 Mr Dunn , of Springvale Road , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was pulled about half a mile out to sea .
19 I think that it is sensible , even when you send stuff out to subbies , to make sure that you 've got a reasonable plan , especially when you send out to subbies , because they 're very hard to control anyway and you 've got to make sure that you 've not sent unrealistic targets , either too high or too low .
20 They would long ago have vanished but for the fact that a powerful tide daily takes most of this pollution out to sea .
21 Winds at the beach are perfect for novices , with enough stronger breezes to satisfy early intermediates , especially a short distance out to sea .
22 This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised .
23 George , it has to be faced , was a bore ; he grunted and grumbled and refused to take his wife out to dinner on the grounds that the night air would bring on his fever .
24 Finally , Fred has invited his wife out to dinner .
25 He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way .
26 First though I wanted a break from downtown Budapest and took a cab out to Margit-sziget ( Margaret Island ) .
27 ‘ You could come into Inverness and get the early bus back out to Ullapool in the morning … ’ offered Bill as I climbed down from my position of elevation and security .
28 I think there were one or two er new items of information that he had concerning Oxfordshire which he did n't realise before , and he certainly gave us the impression that he would er , er take these into account when assessing the share out to Oxfordshire .
29 Often this has been done deliberately : factories and sewage works are built to discharge into seas and rivers , and ‘ honey barges ’ ferry cargoes of sewage out to sea .
30 Grants and available technology shall be provided for the avoidance of the crazy Victorian idea of pumping raw sewage out to sea .
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