Example sentences of "of the journey to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the journey to Barnswick Ruth deliberately tried to think of nothing , to let her mind go blank . |
| 2 | Similarly a few lines further on , in the description of the journey to Golgotha , the long version has " goost , swete Ihesu out of Ierusalem toward " ( p.99 ) , where the interjection of " swete Ihesu " interrupts the action of the scene and lends the whole description a devotional tone . |
| 3 | I wo n't bother with the details of the journey to China — except to say it was a bit of an ordeal , as the British Caledonian airplane broke down at Karachi ( an axle broke on landing ) , and so we were kept endlessly waiting around . |
| 4 | This passes through a mile-long avenue of noble Scots pines ( denuded by a recent fire ) soon after leaving the village , crosses a bare upland with views of the mountains of Coulin Forest , and is joined by a road from Applecross for the last stage of the journey to Lochcarron ; our itinerary will join it at the junction after a tour of the Applecross peninsula which follows below . |
| 5 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 6 | Except to tell me to stop or to go on neither of them spoke throughout the whole hour of the journey to Amsterdam . |
| 7 | As the trucks made to leave the following day for the final part of the journey to Arcady , Cabochon asked Ari if he could speak with her , and then told her about what he feared waited in Arcady for him . |
| 8 | Although widely described as boat people , a large number of the January arrivals had made most of the journey to Hong Kong aboard Chinese buses , only boarding boats for the last leg of their journey . |
| 9 | In all the legends or tales of the journey to individuation and knowledge , the liminal mover always returns to the centre and is reconstituted into structure . |
| 10 | But his description of the journey to Jerusalem is even closer to the Ascent of Mount Carmel , described in the sixteenth century by St John of the Cross . |
| 11 | The movement is the condition of being in time : and the most sustained metaphor for this process of profiting in grace , that of the journey to Jerusalem , is one with immediate connotations for the medieval reader . |
| 12 | The peculiar nature of this journey , that the willed progress is experienced as a divine gift , is a consequence of this theology : In chapter twenty-four Hilton uses the repetitions and cadences of rhetoric to convey this recognition of the activities of a God whose powers are conceived in Trinitarian terms of creating giving and responding in love at the heart of the self : At this point Hilton widens the scope of the metaphor of the journey to Jerusalem — the knowledge of Christ in the soul — by warning that the way from the light of the world to the light of heaven leads through darkness which he describes as " a tymeful space bitwix two daies " ( 24.89v. – 234 ) . |