Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [art] sea " in BNC.

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1 I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again .
2 I 'd find a field or a park bench , and early next morning I 'd head on down to the sea .
3 After forcing the gannet down on to the sea , the skua just does n't let it get airborne again until it has vomited up its cropful of fish .
4 Aromatic juniper-covered slopes fall gently down to the sea from dramatic limestone outcrops .
5 It is also the place for those who want to soak up the sun on their hotel terraces or at the Lido , a huge pool so close to the sea that waves frequently wash into it .
6 We had to walk right down almost to the sea at its low-tide limit before we could get across .
7 Oh goodness yes there 's mud , there was like Cliff Quay you had , you had your mud and when you come to chalk and further down the river you come to ballast near , near Al near the Albridge and further down you come to peat , then you come to green clay , then you come to Cattoes you c you start to dredge ballast again , Pinn Mill you 'd dredge ballast and then right away down to the sea you 'd dredge ballast .
8 I left the broch and walked uphill as far as I could without disturbing the bird colony , then made my way towards the southern end of the island , where the land sloped gradually down to the sea in long , flat terraces of rock .
9 The coast at Shurton Bars shelves more gently to the sea than at many points farther west , and in the eighteenth century still provided a landing-place for infrequent trading vessels which brought coal from Wales for coastal lime-kilns and West Somerset hearths .
10 When they come out , they are fry ; as they grow a little , they become parr ; larger still , they turn into smolt and fizz off down to the sea .
11 Place the whales carefully on to the sea .
12 In front , southwards and seawards , there was a stretch of gravel and then the ground fell away abruptly down to the sea .
13 Christopher Trickie and his Wife … told Mogg that the French people had taken the plan of their House , and that They had also taken the plan of all the places round that part of the Country , that a Brook runs in the front of Trickie 's House and the French people inquired of Trickie wether the Brook was Navigable to the Sea , and upon being informed by Trickie that It was not , they were afterwards seen examining the Brook quite down to the Sea .
14 This involves a rail journey of approaching a thousand miles — Neryungri being , by Russian standards , relatively close to the sea .
15 Many crustaceans , indeed , have done so — sand shrimps and beach hoppers stay quite close to the sea ; pill bugs and penny sows have colonised moist ground throughout the land .
16 Just one more job ; then home to the sea .
17 She stood up , and walked serenely down to the sea , holding her head high and thinking that she was n't sure she could endure another thirteen days in the company of this man .
18 The storms have also left the remains of a medieval church perched perilously close to the sea .
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