Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of ships bore tens of thousands of troops out to sea . |
| 2 | Often this has been done deliberately : factories and sewage works are built to discharge into seas and rivers , and ‘ honey barges ’ ferry cargoes of sewage out to sea . |
| 3 | The sun was shining but there was a bank of cloud out to sea ; no discernible movement anywhere . |
| 4 | Buildings in Darwin shook but the centre of the tremor , which measured 7.3 on the Richter scale , was hundreds of miles out to sea . |
| 5 | Salter told the inquiry how his ‘ bobbing duck ’ device — a duck-shaped canister which , when installed in lines out to sea , would continually extract energy from the waves — had at that time ( 1982 ) been officially estimated to be capable of producing electricity at about 5 pence per kilowatt hour ( p/kWh ) . |
| 6 | A mirage , a reflection of layers on air out to sea . |