Example sentences of "he joined the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been educated in England and after graduating from Oxford with a BA ( Hons ) he returned to his native Kenya where , after a short spell in the national army , he joined the Intelligence Corps . |
| 2 | After being wounded and briefly taken prisoner during the retreat from Mons , he joined the Intelligence Bureau in Cairo , later known as the Arab Bureau , in December 1914 with T. E. Lawrence [ q.v. ] , who became a close friend and ally . |
| 3 | The Navaho Jospehites were all young , as young as he had been when he joined the Sons and painted his face to strike a blow at the heart of the white man 's world . |
| 4 | ‘ He joined the management team in a big way when the storm broke over Jason Livingston 's drug suspension . |
| 5 | It 's a far cry from the kind of work he thought he 'd be doing when he joined the order . |
| 6 | He said he joined the order , properly known as the Grand Priory of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem , in 1986 . |
| 7 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 8 | In 1841 he joined the Felling Chemical Works , where he maintained the lead chambers of the sulphuric-acid plant . |
| 9 | He joined the service of the Authority in 1947 . |
| 10 | He was a master butcher before he joined the service , ’ Nicholson explained . |
| 11 | At some date between 1615 and 1618 , together with his brother , he joined the service of George Villiers ( later first Duke of Buckingham , q.v . ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He joined the court of Chlothar II after 614 , and there he formed a number of close friendships . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He joined the Mott The Hoople fan club and spent most of his homework time addressing letters to that organisation . |
| 16 | But Jamie longed for adventure and , while still a boy , he joined the crew of a boat at Ayr harbour and went off to sea . |
| 17 | He joined the church 's prayer for boldness to do exactly what he had been told by the authorities not to do . |
| 18 | He joined the Scholars ' Movement in 1907 , was arrested , and some say imprisoned on the notorious island of Pulo Condor , where political prisoners were exiled . |
| 19 | Two years later he joined the BBC to help launch Radio 1 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When the 1st World War broke out , he joined the Army and , while he was stationed at Woolwich , he was spotted by Palace 's secretary/manager , Mr Edmund Goodman . |
| 22 | He joined the Army — twice ! |
| 23 | In 1945 he joined the army as a civilian in the censorship division and worked in Berlin . |
| 24 | And then joined so he joined the army , and I was left with this bicycle , and a friend of mine said , How about coming with us on Sunday , you can skip chapel this Sunday , and we 'll go out er we 're going into Derbyshire , and I finished up on Ack 's Edge . |
| 25 | Later that year , knighted , he was sheriff of Wiltshire , and in 1523 he joined the army on the Scottish borders . |
| 26 | In 1882 , falsifying his age and name , he joined the army , serving in Ireland , Scotland , and possibly India and deserting in 1889 . |
| 27 | Then he joined the army . |
| 28 | He joined the Getty in 1982 , having previously worked in the department of Western European sculpture and decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum , New York . |
| 29 | He joined the Munster & Leinster Bank at Rush on 1st January 1970 and later worked in Skerries 1972/74 , Youghal 1974/82 , 66 South Mall 1982/87 and since then at his present location , St. Patrick 's Bridge . |
| 30 | He joined the CE in Thomas Street , was received as a member of the Methodist Church and became a Local Preacher on Trial . |