Example sentences of "devoted himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following Chin 's accidental death in 1960 , it was not until 1972 that he was able to reduce and finally to leave cardiac work ; and from then until his retirement in June 1987 he devoted himself to chest surgery at Southampton , Basingstoke and King Edward VII Hospital , Midhurst . |
| 2 | During this period he was active in public service in Wales , and devoted himself to the development of scouting , and became a friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement . |
| 3 | He retired from the Army in 1948 and returned once more to his estate at Bishopton , where he devoted himself to farm improvements . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Being now unfit to work , he was left to spend his time as he pleased , and he devoted himself to reading , selling scraps of old iron and painting children 's books and shop labels to raise the few pence needed to buy the books . |
| 6 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
| 7 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 8 | He toiled long hours , and devoted himself to Mother 's needs . |
| 9 | Between 1925 and 1929 he devoted himself to his regenerative projects . |
| 10 | After the rather disappointing end to his adventures in Italy , Wolfgang once more devoted himself to composition — more symphonies , divertimentos for wind instruments , Masses , and a double violin concerto . |
| 11 | He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester . |
| 12 | ‘ He simply devoted himself to the sport and was never in any doubt about what he wanted to be , ’ adds Sid . |
| 13 | He retired from politics in 1895 , and devoted himself to his other two enthusiasms , religion and books . |
| 14 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 15 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 16 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 17 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 18 | In 1877 his father had heard the American evangelist D. L. Moody in London , and had sold his racehorses and devoted himself to personal evangelism . |
| 19 | On his retirement in 1961 he returned to his home at Dunlop , Ayrshire , and devoted himself to analysis and further surveys of megalithic sites ( ‘ stone circles ’ ) from the Orkneys as far south as the well-known Carnac site in Brittany , with over 2,000 stones . |
| 20 | This is virtually Nithard 's last word ; and he offers an explanation of Adalard 's power : " Caring little for the public good , he devoted himself to pleasing everyone . |