Example sentences of "[noun sg] he joined the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result he joined the Royal Manor of Portland Athletics Club and has since run in several races for the club in the Dorset Road Racing League , although he has yet to catch up with his friend Tony Coleman from B40 Workshop ! |
| 2 | At yesterday 's investiture he joined the newly-knighted television presenter Sir David Frost , the sports commentator David Coleman , also an OBE , and the Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies , who was invested as an MBE . |
| 3 | Having been in the militia in 1910 , when he was 14 , on the outbreak of war he joined the Canadian Army as a private in the Western Universities Battalion and was soon promoted NCO . |
| 4 | During the war he joined the Police force and then worked at Telfers Pie Factory before opening his own business — the Wimbledon Health Food Stores , with his wife , Joan . |
| 5 | During the Boer War he joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper , but was soon commissioned and later promoted to captain . |
| 6 | While awaiting a vacancy he joined the natural history class at Edinburgh University under George James Allman [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Clough went into the match against Everton wondering whether another setback might bring him the sack on the day he joined the Nottinghamshire miners on a protest march . |
| 8 | After taking a degree in economics he joined the Sheffield Telegraph , moving to the Manchester Guardian in 1960 . |
| 9 | Later that season he joined the select band of Palace players who have been awarded two Testimonials or Benefit matches by Crystal Palace FC . |
| 10 | Lord Joseph has been interested in the causes of poverty for a long time : as a young man he joined the Howard League for Penal Reform as well as a Quaker group which busied itself about improving the social conditions of the poor . |
| 11 | ‘ Because at one stage of his life he joined the British Army . ’ |
| 12 | Soon afterwards in 1838 he was appointed engineer and manager on the construction of the Box tunnel on the Great Western Railway , acquitting himself so well that he attracted the favourable notice of Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] , so that on the completion of the tunnel he joined the engineering staff of the GWR . |
| 13 | In the same year he joined the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment as a second lieutenant and served in the South African war . |
| 14 | At the beginning of this century he joined the rather weird religious sect known as the Khlist , which cleaved to the belief that in order to receive absolution it was necessary to sin first . |
| 15 | His last trip in a lifeboat as a crew member was 7 June 1983 , and from that date he joined the shore crew again , retiring this year after 52 years service . |