Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara ignored them as the boat chugged out to sea ; soon the harbour and the cliffs were a long way away . |
| 2 | Just then he saw a small boat moving out to sea , towards a ship . |
| 3 | Paige allowed her gaze to drift out to sea . |
| 4 | The logical erm conclusion from that was to look at some form of tertiary education and that is what the County Council went out to consultation on . |
| 5 | It may be , secondly , that the era of ‘ flexible accumulation ’ takes the form , not so much of sub-contracting between small firms within manufacturing , but rather of more work put out to service sector firms . |
| 6 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 7 | Its taint reaches out to family life , where religion turns to rivalry , brotherly love becomes murder , and justice degenerates into blood-lust ( Genesis 4 ) . |
| 8 | Subordination is , in the Genesis text , the punishment meted out to woman . |
| 9 | Wycliffe was received in the lounge , which had a large picture-window looking out to sea . |
| 10 | The Coastguard launched the Crimdon Dene inshore lifeboat and the helicopter at RAF Boulmer was scrambled yesterday after children reported seeing a swimmer floating out to sea near Hartlepool . |
| 11 | Some spend their time inland on headwaters where streams are small and flows are low , while others work on predominantly tidal rivers where dilution is easily achieved and any pollution carried out to sea . |
| 12 | It 's very nice sitting on the ver veranda looking out to sea . |
| 13 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 14 | ‘ What I told you about Saturday night going out to post letters and afterwards going for a walk — was perfectly true . ’ |
| 15 | But it was beautiful for all that , Lindsey decided , leaning against a wall to stare out to sea . |
| 16 | The romantic grave on that rocky promontory ; the great man lying there , his head pointing out to sea , listening for all eternity to the comings and goings of the tide ; the young writer , with stirrings of genius inside him , kneels by the tomb , watches the pink drain slowly from the evening sky , reflects — in the way young men are wont to do — on eternity , the fugitive nature of life and the consolations of greatness , then gathers a flower which has rooted itself in Châteaubriand 's dust , and sends it to his beautiful mistress in Paris … |
| 17 | The rub was that the women said that when the wife went out to work and earned more income for the family , it meant ‘ you live up to your wages ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 19 | In a ramshackle sort of way , we actually put together a few decent tunes , though as is always the case with truck bands , or marching bands for that matter , quality loses out to volume . |
| 20 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 21 | When his dinghy blew out to sea , he swum after it , not realising the strength of the waves . |
| 22 | Night after night I sat on the sofa looking out to sea , the way Francis had . |
| 23 | But at last , after three hours ' hard work , all ninety-nine were on the ship , and the Fram went out to sea again . |
| 24 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 25 | Meantime a small entourage travelled out to Compass Point to meet with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth , formerly of the weird and very wonderful Talking Heads , who had previously worked at the studio under the guise of Tom Tom Club . |
| 26 | There was a long promontory thrusting out to sea , with a deep inlet to either side where the tide sucked and swirled among fallen rocks . |
| 27 | when this lot goes out to consultation you come back and te to me that other people are n't putting their arms up in air , about the reduction in services , or what are preceiv or what are perceived , no hang on , |
| 28 | Shrewd behaviour is still encouraged but adversarialism loses out to co-operation . |
| 29 | Main boomed out to port , genoa to starboard , they ghosted up the smooth waters of the river like a giant white butterfly as the first grey touch of dawn lightened the sky . |
| 30 | One hand stretched out to cup one side of her face , the other slid under her waist to draw her close to him . |