Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [verb] [pron] life to " in BNC.
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1 | This is very clear in Masefield 's analysis of one such romantic hero , the almost impossibly self-denying Captain Margaret , who has vowed his life to the service of a woman long loved and now married to a villain : |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Any one who is saved , any one who is a Christian , who is a follower of Jesus Christ , who has committed their life to Christ , who has received his forgiveness , and who belongs to him , any one is ready and able to receive the Holy Spirit . |
4 | There is the difference for the person who has put their trust in God who has committed their life to Christ and they will go and you and I will go through those storms , and through those tempests , and be knocked around and be , almost swamped by them but the thing is we are not alone Jesus Christ , he is in the boat of your life with you . |
5 | A SCOTTISH botanist who has devoted his life to cultivating rare South Sea orchids in Britain has won public recognition for his work — thanks to the Royal Mail . |
6 | What is essential in considering all these matters is to see beyond the weeping , struggling figure to the austere searcher who had devoted his life to reaching precise definitions of Truth , Rectitude and Justice , and to living accordingly . |
7 | For a communist militant who had devoted his life to the struggle against fascist barbarism and oppression , the revelation that the Soviet communist state had come to a private agreement with Hitler 's Nazi Germany was a mortal body blow . |
8 | She thought of the agency folding , of having to give up her flat , of Sebastian , who had devoted his life to his business , paying with divorce as the price of his involvement , of Jenny in Media Research who had just got married and was struggling with a mortgage , or Ben , one of the account executives , whose wife was in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant . |