Example sentences of "devote himself to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester . |
| 3 | ‘ He simply devoted himself to the sport and was never in any doubt about what he wanted to be , ’ adds Sid . |
| 4 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 7 | To explain the-timidity of these people , we need look no further than the example of Arthur Jensen , who , after devoting himself to the study of educationally significant individual differences , is declared by the press to be an advocate of segregated schooling for ‘ poor and black children ’ . |
| 8 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 9 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 10 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 11 | The reason Gandhi gives for choosing to become a vānaprasthin is that he wanted to devote himself to the service of the community . |
| 12 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 13 | He returned to England on succeeding his father as second Baron Northwick in 1800 , and was able to devote himself to the formation of the collection for which Northwick Park became famous . |
| 14 | When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " . |