Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina struck out across the aquamarine water and swam quickly out to sea . |
| 2 | Flights of birds disturbed by the sound of turning wheels rose from their nests and flew straight out to sea . |
| 3 | The bomber dropped from formation with smoke pouring from it and disappeared slowly out to sea . |
| 4 | Ruth looked doubtfully out to sea , wondering what he meant ; but then she began to see something , more with her mind 's eye than in reality , though she knew at once it was very real . |
| 5 | Only Røst lay further out to sea . |
| 6 | He frowned and looked fixedly out to sea . |
| 7 | And the inter-island ship , the Nanasipau'u , which might have given me a lift up north , chose to ride out the wind in the lee of the island , unwisely put down both anchors , promptly snapped both chains and then drifted helplessly out to sea . |
| 8 | Visibility was very poor and having been warned that barrage balloons were hoisted over the Liverpool area which had very recently suffered heavily in bombing raids , we went well out to sea before turning in to Speke , only to get entangled in a coastal convoy flying balloons . |
| 9 | Across the cove , about three hundred yards away , the house on stilts looked blindly out to sea , giving no sign of life . |
| 10 | She had turned away at once and gazed again out to sea . |
| 11 | The Ranger got safely out to sea , with three prisoners aboard , some others who had been taken having been released , and by 6 am was making course for Kirkcudbright Bay in the Solway Firth . |
| 12 | Guillemots and razor bills whirred rapidly out to sea , surface-dived for fish , and whirred back again to feed hungry chicks . |