Example sentences of "his life to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's devoted his life to the cause and if Patrick came back there 's no question as to who he 'd want to control the show , because it was he that called Peter ‘ The Sacred Keeper of My Sacred Conscience ’ . |
| 2 | Had he been alive he would doubtless have been delighted at the response of the leading conservative theatre critic to What the Butler Saw ( 1969 ) : ‘ Orton 's terrible obsession with perversion , which is regarded as having brought his life to an end and choked his very high talent , poisons the atmosphere of the play . |
| 3 | He demanded that the continuing present he felt his life to be should not be shadowed or challenged . |
| 4 | With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella . |
| 5 | He was tired of teaching , had already given too much of his life to it . |
| 6 | Philip Tompson gave so much of his life to fostering Christian work with young people that it seems invidious to make special mention of one aspect of it . |
| 7 | He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path . |
| 8 | After murmuring words of consolation , I asked her how she 'd felt when her husband gave up being a butcher and devoted his life to carving the gods . |
| 9 | It is not good for a physician to confide personal details of his life to a patient . |
| 10 | UNLOCKING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Robert Burchfield Faber , £6.99 ROBERT BURCHFIELD retired as editor of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary to devote his life to the study of grammar . |
| 11 | Since then he has dedicated his life to his practice in Calcutta where he now only sees the most difficult cases , particularly those with organic pathology for which he finds the 50 millesimal potencies especially appropriate . |
| 12 | He had a very strong character , and this helped him to live his life to the full , despite his disabilities . |
| 13 | But to be sorry for him would be a mistake : he lived his life to the full , and in all his deeds he enriched the lives of others . |
| 14 | ( Richard Foster used Dallas Willard as his director for over four years and reckons his life to be ‘ the embodiment ’ of the teaching in Celebration of Discipline ) . |
| 15 | There was a celebrated individual who devoted a large part of his life to carefully recording everything that he observed ; upon his death , this complete set of observations was presented to the Royal Society in the hope that it would be of use to scientists . |
| 16 | Whilst the rest of Scotland 's footballing anti-heroes stumbled from one seedy den to another , drinking anything in their way , Frank McAvennie has devoted his life to human affection . |
| 17 | He also hated war , but had given his life to working for the down-and-outs in London . |
| 18 | He devoted his life to writing and submitted numerous articles to Scottish and English magazines , but success eluded him and he was unable to support himself . |
| 19 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 20 | I doubt whether the legend of Dom Pérignon would necessarily have survived to this day but for the fact that the Abbey of Hautvillers , where he devoted his life to the perfection of wine , happened to be in Champagne . |
| 21 | He was brought up in an atmosphere of churchmanship , his revered father being a prominent layman who devoted his life to the reunification of the Anglican with the Roman church , and it was perhaps through him that he acquired what seems to have been an unconscious appreciation of the utility of goodness in public life ; one notes in his writings a tendency to equate prayer with will . |
| 22 | There are two parts of his life to which he devotes a great deal of space , and to which he returns again and again . |
| 23 | They range from the churchman who has dedicated his life to fighting racism and the coastguard who spends his days battling against the hazards of our seas , to the voluntary hospital worker and tireless parish councillor . |
| 24 | A MAN who killed his cheating wife walked free yesterday after a judge heard how he had dedicated his life to his family . |
| 25 | Fighting back tears , his 50-year-old widow Sam said : ‘ He gave his life to British Airways and could have expected some support from them . |
| 26 | The Presidential Rally on Tuesday evening saw Dr Hugh Kennedy take over as President , a fitting tribute in this Bicentenary of the BMS to someone who has given so much of his life to serving God and others through the BMS . |
| 27 | Outside the village rises the noble hill of Lewesdon , neighbouring peak to Pilsdon Pen , beloved of Wordsworth when he lived at Racedown and first began to dedicate his life to poetry . |
| 28 | But he was a bisexual , and his sexuality was something that coloured his life to a great extent and , along with a chronic alcohol problem , contributed to his decline . |
| 29 | Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy . |
| 30 | After a two-hour operation , doctors said John , of Kirkby , Merseyside , owes his life to a padded jacket which prevented the jagged metal piercing vital organs . |