Example sentences of "face the sea " in BNC.

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1 At the Nanaimo Hotel after the coal-mine show , two of our engineers who shared a room down the hall knocked on our door one evening just before dusk to ask if we had seen the strange behaviour of the sea-gulls flying outside our hotel room windows , which faced the sea .
2 Delaney faced the sea himself .
3 We struggled to the top and faced the sea .
4 But for the mechanical hospital bed , she might have been in a first-class hotel : the sitting room was agreeably furnished in eau-de-Nil , the bedroom in old rose ; the interconnecting rooms faced the sea over lawns and flower beds , though they were bleak at this time of the year .
5 The Imperial Hotel proudly faced the sea , halfway between its two rivals , the Albion with its Dickensian associations and the relative newcomer , the Grand Hotel , standing sentinel on the West Cliff .
6 Six rooms out of ten face the sea .
7 The dikes get all the credit for keeping the water out , but most of the work is done by the natural wall of sand facing the sea .
8 The side of the dusty street facing the sea was lined with houses all the way along from the pier , but it was difficult to know exactly why many of them were there .
9 Seafront family run hotel facing the Sea Life Centre , Palace Pier and close to Royal Pavilion , the famous Lanes and conference centres .
10 Set facing the sea with a small beach of fine sand , this hotel has one of the best positions in the resort .
11 When weather permits , à la carte lunches are served on the poolside terrace facing the sea , and buffet breakfasts are also served outside .
12 The beach is protected by a reef , and accommodation is in junior suites , each with a split-level bedroom , living room , bathroom with dressing area and balcony , the majority of rooms facing the sea .
13 Accommodation is in comfortably furnished thatched chalets , all facing the sea and beach , and are joined to the central restaurant and bar by a covered walkway .
14 Rory stood on the dunes , facing the sea .
15 It was a wide sweep of shingle with a huge row of athanatos , or agaves , whose bizarre twelve-foot candelabra of flowers stood facing the sea .
16 I did n't say anything and she turned her head away , facing the sea again .
17 He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea .
18 When Bute returned to Scottish control in 1266 , the castle was strengthened by the addition of four round projecting towers and , on the north side , a gatehouse facing the sea .
19 And , them will survive there , but during er the Winter , starting October , you could see the face of the plantation of that was facing the sea , it all scorched up towards the end of O of er December .
20 In the time of Diocletian the principal apartment was a long gallery on the south side facing the sea on whose façade a magnificent colonnade stretched along the Adriatic .
21 Ten countries in the vicinity of the Black Sea have signed a convention for combating the pollution problems facing the sea .
22 Not all accommodation with sea view will face the sea directly and , on occasions , trees may partially obscure the view , particularly from rooms on lower floors .
23 She turned to face the sea again .
24 He turns away to face the sea .
25 One stands naked facing front with her arms raised around her head which turns to face the sea .
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