Example sentences of "[to-vb] to church " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained that his wife was a permanent invalid , unable to come to church , but said he : ‘ Since the day we got married we have shared everything we had and I am bringing this home to give to her . ’ ) |
| 2 | It was necessary to come to church at 6.30 pm for the 7.00 pm service if you wanted to avoid sitting on the narrow side-benches . |
| 3 | Kit Widdows admitted to a little gentle crusading taking place here , being convinced that people would be more likely to be encouraged to come to church when they saw people enacting something that had a meaning for them and that they obviously enjoyed doing rather than being approached by someone knocking on their door . |
| 4 | In fact , he saw him ; Willie Hamilton persuaded him to come to church , and Paul , who had no belief , agreed on condition that they go to Savill 's Old , where Dr Heatherton sustained the charge , as they expressed it here . |
| 5 | In the meantime , if you would like to come to church with me next Sunday , it 'll be my pleasure . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 7 | In May 1685 , Exchequer processes against Quakers for failure to come to church amounted to £33,300 in the county of Suffolk alone . |
| 8 | Would you like to come to church with Papa and me ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think you 're allowed to walk to church and back . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I would like to go to church . |
| 11 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 12 | She always wore the same coat , to feed the hens , to go out , to go to church even . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Early one Sunday morning I decided to go to church . |
| 15 | Nanny Fanny was also a Jewess , which caused a lot of bad feeling because Smallfry called herself a Catholic and so they believed in different pars of the Bible and were supposed to go to church on different days of the week . |
| 16 | North , wanting to go to church , deferred it . |
| 17 | For those who liked to go to church there were padres of several denominations and candles and a camp-built altar . |
| 18 | On the third Sunday I was allowed to go to Church , the Parish Church of Fulmer . |
| 19 | Did you use to go to church ? |
| 20 | Nevertheless , in 1806 , staying at the house of his friend Sir George Beaumont , Wordsworth began to go to church again , even though he was not a regular attender . |
| 21 | The apparent cause was his father 's attempt to force him to go to church . |
| 22 | Would he , she wondered , expect her and Brian to go to church ? |
| 23 | All this time , her cries and weepings had so increased in volume and in duration ( sometimes she cried for five or six hours ) that she was forbidden to go to church , and had to be confessed and absolved in a private chapel . |
| 24 | ‘ I married a Catholic but I did n't see any reason to go to church . |
| 25 | ‘ I just do n't want ever to go to church again . ’ |
| 26 | In 1654 , only a year after Cromwell had taken the title of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth , the School was the stage for the preaching of the independent divine , Samuel Eaton , a remarkable orator , whose speeches against the Book of Common Prayer were said to be so powerful that his listeners would refuse to go to Church . |
| 27 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 28 | And I lost all my urge to go to church , because I felt I was doing wrong , so I did n't go , and then I did n't have the strong principles anymore . |
| 29 | And every other Sunday , afternoon and evening off ; and the next Sunday , the morning to go to church . |
| 30 | No doubt he would be woken up in good time to go to church . |