Example sentences of "[to-vb] to the church " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This woman told me to come to the church and do some healing . ’ |
| 2 | If you 'll be Confirmed in Faith I 'll never ask you to come to the church again . |
| 3 | Pius XI had made it clear in 1930 , subsequent to the success of the Vatican-Italian Concordat of 1929 , that good sons of the church with political power were to look to the church itself for guidance in their statesmanship : |
| 4 | Tithe barns were built by the Church for the exploitation of peasant labour , the peasants being obliged to submit to the Church one tenth of all they produced . |
| 5 | We had to flee to the church refuge here . |
| 6 | I do n't have anything to wear to the church . |
| 7 | Perhaps you have to go to the church at St Florian to understand why the music is as it is , with so many pauses and such great spaciousness . |
| 8 | My Better Half 's always maintained , and I agree with him , if they do n't want to go to the Church then we wo n't force them . |
| 9 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 10 | If Erika Payers had failed to get to the church ( registry office , actually ) on time , it would have been entirely in keeping with her costume . |
| 11 | The upshot was that after much argument all three of them agreed to help out , and all five of us did manage to get to the church on time . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're just off , nipping out the back way to get to the church before them . |
| 13 | What is appropriate is first to desire to love your local church ; second , get alone with God and see what he wants to say to the church ; third , to begin to express this in your housegroup : ‘ I feel what God is saying is … . ’ |
| 14 | Hope also quarrelled with the vicar , and in 1854 left , not to return to the church for twenty years . |
| 15 | The Duke of Edinburgh , who was baptised into the Greek Orthodoox Church , has already privately expressed a desire to return to the church of his birth , which is in communion with the Russian Orthodox Church . |
| 16 | He insisted that he wanted to return to the church to sample some more of the atmosphere : commune with the spirit of the Levellers — that sort of nonsense . |
| 17 | He is homesick and very much wants to return to the church . |
| 18 | Er well as far as I can see erm with , with a few minor reservations , the the elders would prefer not to recommend to the church that a call be issued . |
| 19 | Children from the church school will be designing Mothering Sunday cards to bring to the church , and making a simnel cake to be shared with the congregation . |