Example sentences of "in [adj] [pers pn] joined " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1873 to 1875 he was a draughtsman in the office of Charles Barry , and in 1875 he joined E. R. Robson 's office at the recently formed London School Board . |
| 2 | In 1934 he joined the Confessing Church , the wing of the national ( Lutheran ) Church which refused to compromise with the Hitler government . |
| 3 | In 1934 he joined the Confessing Church , the wing of the national ( Lutheran ) Church which disowned the ‘ German Christians ’ and refused to compromise with the Hitler government . |
| 4 | In 1934 he joined the London , Midland and Scottish Railway as chief electrical engineer and in 1937 became deputy chief mechanical engineer and electrical engineer under ( Sir ) William Stanier [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | He then moved to a succession of short-term jobs until in 1934 he joined some friends in establishing a garage near Basingstoke , specializing in veteran and vintage cars . |
| 6 | In 1934 he joined the GPO Film Unit . |
| 7 | In 1934 he joined the Irish Independent , with whom he worked for an eventful 50 years , latterly as its northern political editor . |
| 8 | ‘ In 1943 I joined Northumberland , New Zealand Shipping Co vessel , and crossed the Atlantic to Panama , through to New Zealand and back again . |
| 9 | In 1948 she joined the Department of Employment in the Ministry of Labour . |
| 10 | Mr Shiratori rose rapidly through the ranks : in 1971 he joined AA 's worldwide partnership and three years later was made managing partner of the Japanese operations . |
| 11 | Since then , training has become an increasingly important part of CEPRA 's activities and in 1986 it joined forces with the Association of Native Language Communicators to set up a three-year communication diploma course for native language speakers . |
| 12 | In 1986 she joined the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) , first as programme manager of the electronics sciences division of the Defense Sciences Office and , later as deputy director of the office , where she negotiated the agreement with Gazelle ( see left ) . |
| 13 | Over the next few years his local reputation spread , and in 1953–54 he joined Sydney grade club Petersham , catching the overnight train to the match each Saturday and returning home that evening . |
| 14 | In 1935 he joined the advertising agency Young and Rubicam to apply his academic expertise to practical matters . |
| 15 | In 1867 he joined Deacon & Gaskill , alkali manufacturers at Widnes . |
| 16 | In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme . |
| 17 | In 1802 he joined the Marylebone Cricket Club at its Dorset Square venue . |
| 18 | In 1802 he joined his elder brother Daniel in founding a drapery business at 3 North Street , Brighton , where he drew and published ‘ A New and Correct Plan of Brighthelmstone ’ . |
| 19 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 20 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |
| 21 | In 1903 he joined the royal commission on the coal supplies of Great Britain ( 1901–5 ) . |
| 22 | In 1821 he joined in partnership with John Beckinton of Newcastle and set up an office at 14 Salthouse Lane , next door to the Hull branch of the Bank of England . |
| 23 | He was far from being a recluse , however , for in 1842 he joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , which at the time had many eminent members . |
| 24 | In 1963 she joined the BBC and worked on everything from Steptoe and Son to That Was The Week That Was , before reaching her real ambition to work on Playschool . |
| 25 | In fact he enjoyed the commercial side of PR , especially after joining Alloa Brewery , and in 1979 he joined Grant Forrest , the advertising agency , as an account manager on its fledgling PR wing with just two clients , Barratt Scotland and Schlumberger ( Barratt is still with him ) . |
| 26 | In 1877 he joined the laboratories of Brooke , Simpson , & Spiller at the Atlas works , Hackney Wick , manufacturers of coal-tar colours , remaining there until 1885 . |
| 27 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
| 28 | In 1924 he joined the Calico Printers ' Association as a research chemist , at a time when the search was on in many laboratories for new synthetic fibres . |
| 29 | In 1888 he joined a Wild West circus and toured the United States for about two years , then sailed to England and established a music-hall act as a sharpshooter . |
| 30 | In 1665–6 he joined with Sir Roger Pratt [ q.v. ] |