Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | When his dinghy blew out to sea , he swum after it , not realising the strength of the waves . |
| 6 | But at last , after three hours ' hard work , all ninety-nine were on the ship , and the Fram went out to sea again . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One hand stretched out to cup one side of her face , the other slid under her waist to draw her close to him . |
| 11 | An outrigger pumpboat chugged out to sea intent on bigger fry : tanguigue fish , lupalupa and marlin . |
| 12 | Far ahead the outline of a fort signalled Antibes , beyond it the Cap ran out to sea . |
| 13 | One day , a tenant went out to work and found a hole in his garden ; hours later it was even bigger , and within yet more hours it became a twenty-foot pit . |
| 14 | The house stared out to sea , out to the night , and I went into it . |