Example sentences of "to devote [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | During the past year , he decided to devote himself completely to healing and , almost as if in response , phenomena more powerful than anything before have started to happen . |
2 | And it was probably because of his desire to ‘ touch ’ space that he began to abandon landscape painting and to devote himself increasingly to still life , in which the depth was naturally more restricted and could be more easily controlled . |
3 | It is likely that the church planter will soon want to leave his secular employment to devote himself fully to the work . |
4 | Up to the age of thirty or so he appeared to devote himself mainly to the social life of various celebrated Parisian salons . |
5 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
6 | In this case an enlightened friend of mankind would save the intellectual because of his potential influence on thousands of human minds ; the chambermaid is advised to devote herself willingly to the flames ! |