Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] the open " in BNC.

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1 The boat moved restlessly beneath them , as if impatient to be out on the open sea .
2 Relieved to be out in the open again , I looked for the route up onto the giant hump of Rhossili Down above the village .
3 He wanted to be out in the open street working , so as to catch things ‘ in motion ’ .
4 Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ .
5 She wanted to be out in the open air , but excluded farming and gardening because of the evils of chemical fertilizers , pesticides , and hybrid animals/plants which deviated from nature 's intentions .
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