Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just then he saw a small boat moving out to sea , towards a ship . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | Wycliffe was received in the lounge , which had a large picture-window looking out to sea . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's very nice sitting on the ver veranda looking out to sea . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ What I told you about Saturday night going out to post letters and afterwards going for a walk — was perfectly true . ’ |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Night after night I sat on the sofa looking out to sea , the way Francis had . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It stands on a small hill , higher than the other villas , with a private approach road and a large balcony looking out to sea . |
| 13 | A miniature railway links Eirias Park with the pier — an attractive feature stretching out to sea . |
| 14 | Martha could not imagine her mother going out to work and felt that the experiment was likely to prove disastrous . |
| 15 | Here 's a shout going out to College , the Boys . |
| 16 | Annunziata agreed that Anthony was unlikely to waste time going out to dinner with the others even if he did return in time and promised to cook something quickly for him if he appeared wanting a meal . |
| 17 | This Grade 2 Listed Building is set in a rocky cliff face pointing out to sea a little way along the foreshore . |