Example sentences of "devote [pn reflx] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then on he devoted himself to buying , selling and exhibiting horses , travelling the length and breadth of Britain in his quest for outstanding stock . |
| 2 | The Company devoted itself to building up a substantial trade in pepper which , while not as valuable as the most expensive products of the Spice Islands like nutmeg and cloves , still commanded a very steady market in Europe . |
| 3 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
| 4 | She , meanwhile , devoted herself to selling as many of her husband 's works as she could to various publishers , including J. A. André of Offenbach am Main , and Breitkopf & Härtel of Leipzig . |
| 5 | Like her sister before her Louise devoted herself to furthering her husband 's work . |
| 6 | So they devoted themselves to promoting political movements which they could imagine would still reach the Milnerian goal . |
| 7 | And Charles and his whole exultant cohort devoted themselves to celebrating Easter . |
| 8 | Mainly , the leading eugenists devoted themselves to preparing ‘ pedigree studies ’ of pauper families in order to establish that the residuum was a degenerate sub-species , genetically afflicted by feeble-mindedness , insanity , al holism , venereal disease , criminality , tuberculosis , and infant mortality , which multiplied far more quickly than superior members of the race . |
| 9 | The Webbs devoted themselves to pressing these ideas upon leading politicians and civil servants . |
| 10 | The revolutionary intelligentsia , Plekhanov urged , must abandon its romantic and terrorist traditions , adopt the scientific perspective of Marxism , and devote itself to assisting in the development of a powerful revolutionary organization of the proletariat . |
| 11 | The President also announced that he would form a transitional government of " national union " as early as January 1991 , which would seek to " strengthen state machinery " and " devote itself to restoring the ethics of the civil service . " |
| 12 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 13 | This is particularly well illustrated in the case of old men who devote themselves to providing near total care for ailing wives , many having gone through marriage with little domestic involvement . |
| 14 | A durian dilettante is a breed apart : there are even special clubs which devote themselves to following the durian season round the entire archipelago — feasting and waxing lyrical on the fruit 's narcotic delights . |
| 15 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 16 | That it was something new is further indicated by Sidonius 's extraordinary description of Syagrius as " a new Solon of the Burgundians in interpreting law " , implying that a Roman aristocrat had devoted himself to drafting edicts for Chilperic and his Burgundians . |
| 17 | Toks Akpata has devoted himself to changing the Laws to reduce the risk of spinal injury . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Millie 's mistress , frustrated at being parted from the family she had devoted herself to rearing and longing for the freedom to travel and relax , stayed loyal to her husband 's ambitions . |
| 19 | At the other extreme there are women who have devoted themselves to perfecting physical beauty . |
| 20 | James Paul was terribly hurt by the collapse of the N.D.D.S. and although he helped to establish the British Deaf and Dumb Association in 1890 , accepting the position of Treasurer in the first year , he preferred to devote himself to developing the social status and services for the deaf people of Ayrshire . |
| 21 | It was in the course of a leisurely journey on the trans-Siberian Railway that he persuaded Wheeler-Bennett to devote himself to becoming a specialist on contemporary Germany . |
| 22 | Gavriil Popov , a leading campaigner for democratic reform , who had been popularly elected as mayor of Moscow in June 1991 and who had threatened to resign in December 1991 , resigned on June 5 , saying that he wished to devote himself to leading the Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms ( an offshoot of the Movement for Democratic Reforms ) . |
| 23 | His first book appeared in New York in 1920 , The Story of Doctor Dolittle , an account of the gently eccentric John Dolittle who gives up his medical practice in order to devote himself to treating animals , learning all their various languages with the help of Polynesia , his sage and authoritative parrot . |
| 24 | She was deciding to devote herself to supporting him as he leapt from one peak to another . |
| 25 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 26 | They , likewise , would find it most unusual and uncongenial if they were expected to devote themselves to constraining and criticizing a Conservative Government . |
| 27 | Because you live alone , you can devote yourself to making your life easier whenever possible . |