Example sentences of "to devote [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Women can give attention to detail and because we were not married we used to devote ourselves to the place . |
| 2 | He originally studied law , before dropping out to devote himself to film criticism and assistant direction on films . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From now on , he would have to devote himself to private achievements . |
| 5 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 6 | We think , therefore , that it is absolutely necessary in order to carry on the Business of this Establishment , as perfectly as possible , that two such Characters should be appointed — and we , in consequence suggest , that altho ’ each be as much as possible qualified in both Departments , yet if one were to devote himself to one Branch and the other to the other branch — the College would be much more usefully directed — for , if one Professor were fully qualified for both — yet so arduous a task could not possibly be executed by one Man only . |
| 7 | James Paul was terribly hurt by the collapse of the N.D.D.S. and although he helped to establish the British Deaf and Dumb Association in 1890 , accepting the position of Treasurer in the first year , he preferred to devote himself to developing the social status and services for the deaf people of Ayrshire . |
| 8 | He never earned a degree , but an allowance from his mother gave him the financial independence to devote himself to a career as writer . |
| 9 | The reason Gandhi gives for choosing to become a vānaprasthin is that he wanted to devote himself to the service of the community . |
| 10 | He became a Congregational minister , but his views about God 's inclusive care for the ‘ ’ heathen ’ and his views about the divine revelation in the Bible , brought him into conflict with the narrow-mindedness of some of his congregation , and in 1893 he left the ministry to devote himself to writing . |
| 11 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |
| 12 | After twenty-five years as one of Cologne 's premier dealers , Zwirner will close his gallery in December of this year in order to work as a private dealer and to devote himself to projects of personal interest . |
| 13 | But what made him choose to devote himself to mathematics was his finding in 1795 of the criterion for a regular n-gon to be constructible using only compass and straightedge . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 16 | Soon he was able to devote himself to it full time . |
| 17 | His first book appeared in New York in 1920 , The Story of Doctor Dolittle , an account of the gently eccentric John Dolittle who gives up his medical practice in order to devote himself to treating animals , learning all their various languages with the help of Polynesia , his sage and authoritative parrot . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1780 he left politics to devote himself to agricultural improvements and amateur science on his Belmont estate in Perthshire . |
| 20 | It was in the course of a leisurely journey on the trans-Siberian Railway that he persuaded Wheeler-Bennett to devote himself to becoming a specialist on contemporary Germany . |
| 21 | Gavriil Popov , a leading campaigner for democratic reform , who had been popularly elected as mayor of Moscow in June 1991 and who had threatened to resign in December 1991 , resigned on June 5 , saying that he wished to devote himself to leading the Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms ( an offshoot of the Movement for Democratic Reforms ) . |
| 22 | It first sets in a social and theological context the desire of the unknown nobleman to devote himself to God without the distractions that arise from involvement with secular responsibilities . |
| 23 | Just as there was nothing Lowell wanted to devote himself to — other than music . |
| 24 | Well , certainly people are satisfied with where we 've got to and want to draw a line underneath it and move on from there , and I think the prospect of going back to the constitution er issues , and they m once again being a key focus , I do n't think anyone in the Party , or outside the Party , sees the Labour Party wanting to devote itself to that at this time . |
| 25 | Sandra had virtually given up her career to devote herself to the task of keeping house and raising a family , though , in that respect , the relationship did not mature as she had hoped . |
| 26 | Pictures of Lorna Lewis picnicking in pedal pushers , marrying in white and christening her baby daughters counterpointed these triumphs , and the couple , who lived their lives from the outside in , saw themselves looking happy in magazines and believed they were happy , although the combination of Hitchcock and post-natal depression persuaded Lorna to announce that she would take a year off to devote herself to her family . |
| 27 | She was deciding to devote herself to supporting him as he leapt from one peak to another . |
| 28 | Though she tried as faithfully as she might to devote herself to the needs of this rude community , she knew that she was not greatly liked and the knowledge injured her . |
| 29 | She always wanted to write and only regrets that she did not sooner have the courage to devote herself to it . |
| 30 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |