Example sentences of "to church " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was clear that the ministers and their parliamentary colleagues , many of whom in any case disliked the scheme , would not pass into legislation any bill which had been declared contrary to church teaching by the bishops . |
| 2 | The changing values attributed to our own private delicts such as divorce , slander , adultery , debt , libel , blasphemy , obedience to church , and the like , have turned some earlier ‘ crimes ’ into matters now governed by other social mores . |
| 3 | Her garden and going to church ? |
| 4 | If you ever think that your woodwork is rather good , to church . |
| 5 | ‘ A guide to Church of England fees ’ is available free from the Pastoral Department ( General Section ) , Church Commissioners , 1 Millbank , London SW1P 3JZ , on receipt of an s.a.e . |
| 6 | Supt Alwyn Harris , 51 , was killed yesterday morning when an IRA boobytrap bomb exploded underneath his car as he drove with his wife to church . |
| 7 | The root of the problem is that there is no Non-Conformist equivalent of the church commissioners who , as well as contributing in large measure to Church of England clergy stipends , share with the state the responsibility for providing the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 8 | And I went to church every Sunday where we used to have missionaries who would come and tell tales about how they built churches in jungle clearings with lions gnawing at their legs . ’ |
| 9 | All the wedding procession goes to church . |
| 10 | He was against tobacco , and against dancing , and against cinemas , and against going to church only once on Sundays . |
| 11 | This passage sheds much light on the method of ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service ’ where the self-mutilation of ‘ enervate Origen ’ is placed in the same lineage as the sexual origin of ‘ the Word ’ , and where the initial ‘ sapient sutlers of the Lord ’ who ‘ Drift across the window-panes ’ is a passage with an ambiguous , or better ambivalent , reference , since it holds together in one term both the ‘ sable presbyters ’ who bring offerings to church and ‘ the bees ’ who bring pollen from one part of the plant to another and so perform the ‘ Blest office of the epicene ’ . |
| 12 | I 'm going to say something which the Church wo n't like — and I go to church every Sunday . |
| 13 | We did n't tell no one about it , just went off to church quietly by ourselves . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like to go to church . |
| 15 | Erika had been to church before : with Omi , once on her own out of curiosity , and once with the F.G.Y. as a prelude to a discussion on Modern Superstitions . |
| 16 | It is too long since I went to church — ’ she broke off as the coffee and cream cakes arrived . |
| 17 | ‘ Dear me , when I was a child we went to church twice every Sunday . |
| 18 | ‘ She talked when we went to church , ’ Erika said . |
| 19 | What is distinct to us or to church work from the assumptions of central Government where funding might direct us to exclude what we want to do and to be a youth service which would deliver a prescribed curriculum . |
| 20 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 21 | When the bells rang and the bishop blessed the people and her cousin , Gayane , went to church , holding a child by each hand , Astrik turned her waxen face away . |
| 22 | Montepulciano not only looks but behaves like a stage set , patronising barbers ' shops and swirly baroque cafe ; its hours are numbered by a forbidding clock-tower Pulcinella ; it goes to church , outside the walls , in the most theatrical building of all . |
| 23 | More than three-quarters of black Americans belong to a church , and nearly half go to church every week . |
| 24 | She always wore the same coat , to feed the hens , to go out , to go to church even . |
| 25 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 26 | Early one Sunday morning I decided to go to church . |
| 27 | She went to church , and cultivated herbs among the vegetables in her garden . |
| 28 | Very occasionally , on our walks , Grandma would tell me things about Wales : about the great cart-horses who died of heart trouble from toiling to and fro up the steep cliff road all their lives ; and how , as a child , she had walked to church along the sands . |
| 29 | But the thing which must have been nearest to her heart , because she returned to it so often , was how as a child she had walked to church along the sands . |
| 30 | In the days of pastoral England , country people had gone to church under the stern eye of squire and parson , one of whom was almost certain to be the local magistrate . |