Example sentences of "[adv prt] from heaven " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sent down from heaven for what purpose ? |
| 2 | When she had a missive for delivery the rainbow was a bridge let down from heaven for her to travel upon . |
| 3 | The ziggurat of Ur was originally built so that their god could step down from heaven into a room at the top of the structure , according to ancient mythology . |
| 4 | Do n't let them look down from heaven , and see you loafing about with your hands in your pockets , doing nothing to keep it up . ’ |
| 5 | He saw what seemed to be a great sheet coming down from heaven . |
| 6 | Mary tottered up on her perch from side to side but nothing wiped the mild , sweet benignity from her doll 's face as she dropped the dew of her mercy down from heaven on the mortal exiles below wailing and weeping in the vale of tears . |
| 7 | ‘ And Ah saw an angel come down from Heaven , havin' the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand . |
| 8 | One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for . |
| 9 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 10 | The loyalty of women and men will reach up from the earth and God 's righteousness will look down from heaven . |
| 11 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 12 | He ran round them all like an angel down from heaven , dropping packets of heroin at a bargain forty quid a gram . |
| 13 | Well yeah , what whatever whatever it is that the rain comes through from heaven , something that opens , opens in heaven and lets the rain come through . |