Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] joined the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 2 | She works in AIB Bank , Cavan , where she joined the Bank on 26th June 1978 . |
| 3 | We proceeded from the old bay at Caraven Arms used by the BC Railway and walked by road to the site of the old Strettford Bridge Junction , where we took to the old track bed as far as Glen Burrell Bridge , where we joined the road again , calling in on the Rev. Ray Arnold at Horderley , who was waiting with coffee and biscuits . |
| 4 | The two right hand and two left hand glazing bars , where they joined the curved members were cut with mortice joints , then loose tenons glued into the top of glazing bars at right angles to housing to remove problem of short grain on tenons . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Price was educated at Radley College and read theology at Worcester College , Oxford , where he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1969 he moved to the Carr Lane site where he joined the engineering fraternity . |
| 9 | commenced in 1812 and opened in 1820 , it ran between Paddington , west London , and Limehouse where it joined the River Thames . |
| 10 | Alongside the spring the tree-lined from Carrants Court Led up the hill to Northbrook Farm where it joined the road from Church bridge . |
| 11 | Huy felt he could get drunk on the smell of Taheb , sinking his lips into the base of her neck where it joined the shoulder . |
| 12 | Although I joined the company only two and half years ago , the contracts which we had then had a two day , three day price on them . |
| 13 | I soon became bored , realizing that I was n't going to get much chance to compete for the club — my best time was 23.3 seconds for 200 metres — so I joined the second club with its headquarters at the track , London Irish , which was more intimate and not quite so awe-inspiring . |
| 14 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |
| 15 | ‘ The Dragon first ! ’ shouted Melanie , so they joined the long line snaking round the barriers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , I never knew what ‘ bin it ’ meant until I joined the army . |
| 19 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 20 | She was told by the Polytechnics Central Admissions System , PCAS , that she would breach her contract with them if she joined the Universities Central Council on Admissions , UCCA . |
| 21 | Lord Denning , in an obiter statement made prior to the passing of the 1972 Act , suggested that if we joined the community our sovereignty " would henceforth be limited … it would not be ours alone but would be shared with others . " |
| 22 | Gavyn Davies , chief UK economist in London for the US investment house Goldman Sachs , said : ‘ If they joined the pound would spontaneously recover . ’ |
| 23 | They were sharp enough to realize that if they joined the party cell , they would likewise be cut off from their fellows for other reasons . |
| 24 | Some people have said that if they joined the t&g or ACTT the strike would have been over much quicker . |
| 25 | By forcing MPs to give up their seats if they joined the Cabinet , the NPKA believed that it could eliminate vote-buying and other corrupt practices . |
| 26 | Throughout the night , throughout the seven hours it took to cover the one hundred and twenty kilometres to Leipzig , they had not passed another vehicle until they joined the rush-hour traffic into the city . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ The reason they sacked me was because I joined the union and I was the shop steward . ’ |
| 30 | I mean , I remember mother saying that , you see mother had never seen the sea till she joined the Guild and they decided to save for an outing , and then the next thing I can remember was that we used to have these stamps every week and I think it come to two and ninepence erm and for that we went to Rhyl . |