Example sentences of "be at sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And once we 're at sea the food will be given out , ’ Ruth said . |
| 2 | All they do when they 're at sea is take down the messages we send to them , so do n't worry about not picking up a signal , 'cause nobody 'll be sending you any . ’ |
| 3 | One minute you 're in Egypt , the next minute you 're in Rome , then you 're at sea on a ship , then back in Egypt again — ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm at sea , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 5 | For our emotions , too , can be at sea unless the authority of God 's word is hidden within our hearts . |
| 6 | Thus , no Roman skipper would move off from a port on 24 August , 5 October , or 8 November , and it was thought bad to be at sea at the end of the month . |
| 7 | The pigs will be at sea for about a month and Cobbledicks of Torrington has supplied enough of their Supersow feed to last them until they reach their new home . |
| 8 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
| 9 | The real costs did not come from doing work ( that is , being at sea ) but from not doing work ( that is , sitting idle in port ) . |
| 10 | Working in the studio , you had to have buckets of water thrown over the actors to give the impression of being at sea ! |
| 11 | Jolly cabaret in the Odeon-like theatre made us forget we were at sea ; a friendly , comfortable ship with pleasant , fairly roomy cabins . |
| 12 | In Force 4 winds , with the tide running , we knew we were at sea . |
| 13 | Ruth told herself that once they were at sea things would be better . |
| 14 | Although the American fleet was destroyed , its aircraft carriers were at sea and unscathed . |
| 15 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 16 | Interestingly two of the lifeboatmen — Shane Coleman and Robert Gorman were at sea in vessels other than lifeboats in their medal-winning services — and George Williamson is a commercial fisherman with no direct connection with the RNLI . |
| 17 | Her head was swimming and the floor seemed to be undulating as if she were at sea . |
| 18 | Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea . |
| 19 | I began to think he was going to be a good companion to have when we were at sea . |
| 20 | Some of the men they knew had gone home to Ireland to escape being called up for the forces , but many more were serving in the Army , Navy or Air Force or were at sea with the Merchant Marine . |
| 21 | Six were at sea , on the business of trade — an act of faith that he might have cause to regret . |
| 22 | And they were at sea for three ! |
| 23 | Senior officers on the Russian submarines are paid a supplement in US dollars these days — $7 a day while they are at sea , which strikes me as an astonishing fact . |
| 24 | We allow the Bible to redirect our lives , making its authority the standard by which we relate to God , just as Greenwich mean time helps navigators know where they are at sea . |
| 25 | It eventually showed fishermen preparing and setting out on a peaceful evening for a night 's work ; while they are at sea , a storm blows up . |
| 26 | The French ships are at sea . |
| 27 | The summit is 4406 feet higher than Loch Linnhe , and because its roots are at sea level and there are no possible elevated lift-offs from cars , the full height must be climbed on foot . |
| 28 | Some of the adults are at sea feeding . |
| 29 | However , the change in safety regulations and the harder line taken is not sufficient compensation for the curtailing and running down of health and safety inspections , nor the differences in health and safety regulations which exist between companies operating on land , and those , such as contractors on off-shore oil rigs who are at sea . |
| 30 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |