Example sentences of "[verb] to sea " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the outflow is perennially full , white water pouring down to where the moor cleaves open and lets it fall to sea . |
| 2 | When added to sea urchin egg homogenates , cADPR released calcium from the same stores operated by RYRs . |
| 3 | So will he be returning to sea ? |
| 4 | Daylight transferred to sea to night , |
| 5 | The fishermen understood what she meant , that there could be a capsize if they put to sea , but they laughed at her , thinking she had mental hallucinations and put out to sea — at that time in calm conditions . |
| 6 | They put to sea in an attempt to escape the martyr 's wrath , and were shipwrecked , with 160 of their vessels sinking and another 65 being driven to distant and unknown regions , where their occupants were slaughtered . |
| 7 | ‘ I wonder why you keep going to sea when you know it 's dangerous ’ ( quoted by B. J. Wagner , 1976 , p. 59 ) , muses Mrs. Heathcote to a class of children who are into a drama about pirates — and she from then on carries at the back of her mind the possibility that through the subsequent experience these children might understand something of what drives people to face dangers . |
| 8 | Now Dorothy 's ‘ I wonder why you keep going to sea … ’ detaches itself from simple classification ; its very phrasing has emotional overtones . |
| 9 | These men will not readily wear garment of crotal when going to sea , as it is said that the crotal plant was plucked from the rocks and will therefore return to the rocks . |
| 10 | A. Each day , in the Mersey estuary , some twenty or thirty ships are arriving or going to sea . |
| 11 | For we were going to sea . |
| 12 | It must be like going to sea in a haystack . ’ |
| 13 | Charles , advised by the Queen , decided to develop his career as a Naval officer by going to sea . |
| 14 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 15 | There was a direct connection with the shipyards , not only in terms of orders by British owners ( who now build abroad to a far greater extent than any other non-flag of convenience maritime nation ) , but through the training of engineering officers who traditionally served their time as fitters in the yards or engine works before going to sea . |
| 16 | For example , anywhere which derives its existence from the sea is likely to be good to draw — marine architecture , quaysides , boats , fishing — all the complicated mass of detail and shape which surround the activity of going to sea . |
| 17 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 18 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 19 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 20 | Our picture shows , L to R : ( Chief Engineer with P&O , subsequently Technical Services Division and Three Quays Marine ) ; ( Secretary to Albert Morris before going to sea as an assistant purser in 1954 ) ; ( Chief Engineer , P&O , subsequently Deputy Engineer Manager ) ; ( ex-Manager , Islay Kerr in Singapore until transferring in 1967 to P&O Lines as General Manager , retired as Managing Director OCL South Africa in 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Well no , that 's to , we had two what they call , two dumb hoppers the Roxanne and the Sandbank and those dumb hoppers had to be towed to sea and t take |
| 22 | Well the point was you see , we had a dumb hopper , the dumb hopper was towed by an old tug , they had to tow that dumb hopper to sea , what was called dumb cos they ai n't got no engines and so that was towed to sea and then course the er the dumb hopper ha had four winches , hand winches and then they , cos they had the chains on the but the steam hopper |
| 23 | After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour and struck their yards in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea . |
| 24 | ‘ For God 's sake , get to sea instantly … , ’ the First Lord of the Admiralty signalled the captain in command of the squadron assigned to blockade the Texel . |
| 25 | We must none of us go alone until we get to sea . |
| 26 | Pycnogonids are small spider-like creatures , ½ inch to 6 inches long depending on the species , which are not uncommon on seashores all over the world , clinging to sea anemones or the bottom of rocks ( Figure 8.9 ) . |
| 27 | On Christmas Day in 1806 , three boats comprising of the entire fishing fleet of Stotfield , a fishing village near Lossiemouth in Scotland , prepared to put to sea for a day 's fishing . |
| 28 | He was not picked up by A.S.R. largely due to the delay in allowing them to put to sea . |
| 29 | To watch them , the largest working sailing ships left in the world , shaped like the galleons of dreams , straining softly into port under thousands of feet of black canvas , made us long to put to sea in them . |
| 30 | But you would have to be awfully sure that you were destined for the gallows to put to sea in a small boat during a storm . |