Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We whipped over the northernmost house , across the beach , and thus out to sea again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I am just a little ship , ’ Aunt Emily said , ‘ drifting farther and farther out to sea . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Breeding on barren moorlands and tundra ; passing along coasts on passage , but well out to sea in winter , and rare inland after breeding . |
| 7 | Even where the coast does not face directly towards the incoming waves refraction causes the waves to swing round and approach the shore less obliquely than they were when further out to sea ( Fig. 8.8 ) . |