Example sentences of "to the end of his life " in BNC.
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| 1 | This interest is something which he continued to the end of his life , as witnessed by his increasing knowledge of India and to a lesser extent of China . |
| 2 | But a prodigious memory enabled him to retain to the end of his life a total recall , whether of a text of scripture or a line of the Iliad or a passage in Plato 's Dialogues . |
| 3 | THE RT REV CHARLES Renfrew , who has died aged 62 , maintained an active ministry almost to the end of his life , despite being a kidney dialysis patient . |
| 4 | His creativity continued unabated to the end of his life , but his efficiency in administration and political reform soon led to enormous demands being made on his time . |
| 5 | It is clear that the Confessor retained his native energy to the end of his life , since Earl Harold built a hunting lodge for him in Wales as late as 1065 . |
| 6 | Home of Sir Winston Churchill from 1924 to the end of his life . |
| 7 | An extract from the story telling how Hazel , the leader of a group of rabbits , comes to the end of his life , was read by the Rev Phillips — again , at Kelly 's request . |
| 8 | Close to the end of his life , Vincent referred approvingly to Tolstoy 's My Religion , and spoke of his hopes for a ‘ private and secret revolution in men from which a new religion will be born … something altogether new which will have no name , but will have the same effect of comforting , of making life possible , which the Christian religion used to have … ’ . |
| 9 | He knew French lay intellectuals like Jacques Maritain ( ambassador to the Holy See , 1945–8 ) and Jean Guitton , who spent 8 September with him every year from 1950 to the end of his life . |
| 10 | It continued at Mr John Eames 's Moorfields Dissenting Academy in London , but it seems that young Howard did not take readily to formal learning and to the end of his life he remained only indifferently literate . |
| 11 | He was delighted by the somewhat undeserved honour of the Chancellorship of the University , which was bestowed upon him in 1930 , and which he retained to the end of his life . |
| 12 | From the beginning to the end of his life , Nizan was dominated by a manichean belief that the world could ultimately be divided into Good and Evil . |
| 13 | From that day on , every evening to the end of his life , the fisherman ate his fish and his wild herbs in contentment ; never again did he wish to visit the sea-king 's palace . |
| 14 | Selous went on bird-watching and writing nearly to the end of his life and died at home in Weymouth 25 March 1934 . |
| 15 | Retiring from Holborn in 1776 , Kitchin continued map-making to the end of his life . |
| 16 | He deserves most of the credit for the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 ; and from 1895 to the end of his life he was president of the University College at Aberystwyth , to which he regularly contributed £1,000 a year . |
| 17 | To the end of his life Cumming retained an infectious , if sometimes eccentric , enthusiasm for the tradecraft and mystification of espionage , experimenting personally with disguises , mechanical gadgets , and secret inks in his own laboratory . |
| 18 | To the end of his life Picasso himself did not bother to distinguish between African and Oceanic art , although he must have been aware of distinctions between the two during his contacts with the Surrealists in the 1920s , for they tended to prefer and extol the ‘ marvellous ’ properties of the latter . |
| 19 | Jefferson , whose eloquence on the theme of natural equality is constantly reiterated and was even written into the American Declaration of Independence , remained a slave owner to the end of his life . |
| 20 | Right at the outset , perhaps we can read a verse from one Timo , er two Timothy , chapter one and verse twelve and Paul says there , he 's come almost to the end of his life , he 's , he will shortly be , taken out and will be executed and he says , for this reason I also suffer these things . |