Example sentences of "who 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 .
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