Example sentences of "to heaven " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I could die and go to heaven when I hear you making wordless muted sounds beside me and feel your lips kiss my brow so gently . |
| 2 | As in Jacob 's dream of old the movement is from earth to heaven . |
| 3 | Nicotine addicts ' stairway to heaven |
| 4 | Erich Honecker dies and goes to Heaven , but St Peter bars the way : ‘ Erich , you belong in Hell . ’ |
| 5 | Right , killed him ; but then surely he went to heaven ? |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'm going to heaven too , without the slightest doubt . ’ |
| 7 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 8 | But he raised his arms to Heaven and said , ‘ Praise God , you have no famine and we have no famine . |
| 9 | My mother believed that if she was gon na get to heaven , I had to marry . |
| 10 | Check times with TV Times , see listings for other details In My Generation by Nick Cass of Manchester ; New Contem- poraries , ICA Gallery : see Critics ' choice Maria Almeida in the title role and Jonathan Cope as the Prince in the Royal Ballet 's production of Ashton 's Cinderella PHOTOGRAPH : LESLIE E. SPATT A detail from Carel Weight 's Turner Goes To Heaven ; Agnew 's : see Critics ' choice . |
| 11 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 12 | Trollope reaches the point of wondering whether a plumber could go to heaven , before sweet reason intervenes : ‘ we do not see why he should be debarred if cabinet ministers be allowed to enter . ’ |
| 13 | The nearest taste to heaven , I 'd say , ’ said Mrs Hollidaye . |
| 14 | Not to heaven , dear ! ’ |
| 15 | About half-an-hour before his death , he said , ‘ I am dying ’ , and soon after added , ‘ ‘ I am in the high road to heaven . ' ’ |
| 16 | No , triumph will not suit me till I get to heaven … |
| 17 | The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven . |
| 18 | On the next page of the sketch-book is a picture of her being borne up to heaven by cherubs , much in the style of the concluding illustration of The Old Curiosity Shop . |
| 19 | ‘ Awaking after a short sleep , he said to his mother , ‘ I was never sure I should die before ; but now I am sure I shall die , and go to heaven . ’ , |
| 20 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 21 | At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him . |
| 22 | Perhaps the world we are in is the world of vision , the world of stairways to heaven , and companies of God 's army . |
| 23 | DO GOOD DOGS GO TO HEAVEN ? |
| 24 | DO GOOD DOGS GO TO HEAVEN ? |
| 25 | DO GOOD DOGS GO TO HEAVEN ? |
| 26 | Do , as the fluffy Disney film states , all good dogs go to heaven ? |
| 27 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 28 | He was persuaded that disunity in the church was displeasing to heaven and bad for the empire 's success and prosperity . |
| 29 | As such gateways to heaven multiplied , they came to outline a new map of sacred urban topography . |
| 30 | The statement , meant to be reassuring , that ‘ Mummy has gone to heaven to be with Jesus ’ , can leave the child very jealous and angry with God for taking his mother away from him . |