Example sentences of "[conj] he joined the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a successful career in England , Willie Johnson followed the exodus of ageing British professional players to the US Soccer League , where he joined the Canadian team Vancouver Whitecaps . |
| 2 | Price was educated at Radley College and read theology at Worcester College , Oxford , where he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society . |
| 3 | Prior to then postings have included Tallaght , where he joined the Bank , 1972–76 , Dame Street , 1976–79 , Kilcock 1979–82 and Crumlin Road 1982–90 . |
| 4 | In 1969 he moved to the Carr Lane site where he joined the engineering fraternity . |
| 5 | Immediately he joined the group of hard , inflexible German communists the Soviet Union had sent to set up a puppet government in the sector of Germany they occupied . |
| 6 | Immediately he joined the others , slid down the pole onto the ground floor where from a peg he grabbed his coat and helmet and put on his overalls and boots . |
| 7 | Cec Blakemore was a Stourbridge lad , but it was from Redditch that he joined the Palace in December 1922 . |
| 8 | It was in 1911 that he joined the club , a good year for everybody except possibly the first professional there , H.A . |
| 9 | Isaac Ojok , a Minister of Education under the Obote regime , was sentenced to death on Dec. 18 , having been found guilty of plotting the downfall of the government of President Yoweri Museveni ; Ojok , who was arrested in 1987 , told the High Court that he joined the Holy Spirit guerrillas after being " stupefied by herbs " given to him by their leader Alice Lakwena [ for whom see p. 35493 ] . |
| 10 | Muhammad Hammad was a literate and qualified person , and his eldest son ( a clerk in the municipality until he joined the army ) was similarly in favour of education . |
| 11 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
| 12 | Moran was either mowing a new field or tossing the field ahead of them with the tedder but he joined the band of girls under the shade of one of the big beeches when Rose came with the basket and can . |
| 13 | Steve continued with us in One until the following March , when he crossed the Atlantic to play for Vancouver Whitecaps for a couple of seasons , but he joined the Palace for a third time in the summer 1981 as our Youth Coach and was then appointed Manager in mid-November , charged with keeping the side in Division Two , following relegation from Division One . |
| 14 | George Petchey was a driving , inspirational wing-half and certainly one of the best in that position in the old 3rd Division South , but he joined the Palace in the summer of 1960 to play for us under Arthur Rowe . |
| 15 | Full-back Ernie Rhodes hailed from Tees-side , but he joined the Palace as a young man in the summer of 1913 , making his Palace debut in the ensuing season , although it was after the Great War that he made his major contribution . |
| 16 | But he joined the party as they tramped off towards Lustley Dale . |
| 17 | But he joined the New Party and so it er he spiked his guns for a long while . |
| 18 | The coroner Nicholas Gardiner recorded a verdict of accidental death … saying he was quite satisfied the brain damage was caused by the forceps … but he joined the health authority in extending his sympathies to the Taylor family . |
| 19 | He 's become very tight-lipped since he joined the Senior Service . ’ |
| 20 | It was at this point , while we were stumbling about , not really knowing what to say with so many other people present , that Eric suggested we should borrow a driver and jeep from the ASC — this boy was the biggest borrower of jeeps I had ever met — and set off for Fontanellato , where we could all be reunited : my parents , the Merlis , the Superiora and the suore at the hospital , and as many of the other people who had helped him as possible , including Dr Sambataro , of whom there had been no news since he joined the partisans . |
| 21 | As he was a very intellectual artist , he was the ideal figure to take over from Metzinger the task of transmitting the principles of Cubism to the other painters ; and since he joined the group at a moment when the movement was striving for greater definition , his influence and importance can not be overestimated . |
| 22 | In the end that is the same thing as Andrew Murray has been attempting to do since he joined the Tour in 1979 . |
| 23 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 24 | Ian had been Group Financial Controller since he joined the company in 1989 . |
| 25 | That turned out to be the highlight of a very disappointing campaign for the veteran Ryder Cup star who went on to finish 62nd in the order of merit , his lowest placing since he joined the PGA European Tour in 1972 . |
| 26 | The highlight of Roe 's season was victory in the Lancome Trophy near Paris in September , his second title since he joined the tour back in 1985 . |
| 27 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 28 | Lance Corporal Robert Furness , 22 , ran headlong into another vehicle minutes after he joined the M1 at Chesterfield , Derbys . |
| 29 | The good news for NeXT Computer Inc is that WordPerfect Corp plans to include support for NeXTstep for Intel Corp processors in the upcoming interim release of WordPerfect 1.0.1 for NeXT , the bad news is that Cable & Wireless Plc alumnus Peter van Cuylenburg is resigning as president and chief operating officer of NeXT , just one year after he joined the company — ‘ Now that NeXT is becoming a software company , NeXT and van Cuylenburg mutually agreed that the restructured 200-person company no longer requires both a chief executive and a president and chief operating officer , ’ NeXT said in a statement . |
| 30 | International fame was achieved after he joined the Marlborough Gallery in 1958 who were instrumental in organising the first retrospective at the Tate in 1962 , to be followed by major shows at the Grand Palais , Paris , in 1971 and the Tate in 1985 . |