Example sentences of "she devoted [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less , throughout the autumn and the cold winter that followed , those three hundred yards became three hundred years each and every time , the sign of her defeat , the sign of her capture — she felt herself a wild animal tamed and she devoted herself to Maggie with what appeared to be maternal passion mainly because she felt guilty at her lack of joy in it . |
| 2 | And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening . |
| 3 | Remaining single , she devoted herself to a lifetime of campaigning and was , with Bessie Rayner Parkes , Jessie Boucherett , Barbara Bodichon and others , one of the founder members of an organization specifically designed to find work for women , especially the much-spoken-of " half million extra women " in the population who were statistically unlikely to marry . |
| 4 | She devoted herself to the ‘ liberal education for all ’ movement . |
| 5 | It was a task she devoted herself to while Ted with a most ungentlemanly violence of language put the car into reverse and tried to back up the lane . |
| 6 | There in the Legation , remote from family involvements and interference , she devoted herself to my father . |