Example sentences of "his life to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | Deafened at the age of three months as a result of a fall from his nurse 's arms , he took full advantage of his independent means by devoting his life to the service of his fellow-deaf as an honourary missioner in his native city of Liverpool and as a licensed lay reader excelling in the conduct of religious services for the deaf . |
| 4 | As a hearing son of deaf parents , Hayhurst grew up communicating naturally by sign language and developed an early ambition to devote his life to the Service of deaf people . |
| 5 | A LEADING pro-democracy activist from Malawi said yesterday he owed his life to the Church of Scotland because of its continued pressure on the totalitarian regime . |
| 6 | On a recent visit to WACC in London , he explained how his release from 17 months of brutal imprisonment under the dictator Duvalier in the mid-1970s had led him to devote his life to the struggle for justice and democracy in Haiti . |
| 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 | Part of his home in Falkirk was converted into a scientific laboratory and workshop and he devoted his life to the pursuit of experimental science . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Miyagi devoted all his life to the furtherance of goju . |
| 12 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |