Example sentences of "to join [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher had chosen her time to join them with the purpose of extending their mathematical thinking and the second day 's activity shows that David had absorbed some of the ideas about size . |
| 2 | He has already been asked to join them for a 60-date tour next year . |
| 3 | The Mackenzies had invited the Keiths and their children , two-year-old Billy , and Roberta Keith , born only a few months before and named after Robert in Sydney , to join them for the festive season . |
| 4 | She was grateful that Sylvie had not taken up the Princesse 's invitation to join them for the holidays and , a little guiltily , that Leo had n't either . |
| 5 | Flavia Sherman had elected to spend the day shopping on the Rue Catinat and was to join them for the first hunt next morning . |
| 6 | She joined the Garter knights for a reception and lunch before the ceremony before deciding not to join them for the service at St George 's Chapel . |
| 7 | Teign Machine Knitters welcome visitors to the area who are missing their knitting to join them for an evening . |
| 8 | Alex stomped by and declined to join them for an early morning cocktail . |
| 9 | Kenneth adores him and commandeered him the moment he arrived , allowing me to join them on a walk after yet another edible meal ( any more of this clever cooking and you 'll ruin your reputation ) . |
| 10 | — JON Gittens , a key figure in Middlesbrough clinching a place in the new Premier League next season , wants to join them on a permanent basis from Southampton . |
| 11 | ‘ If you 're going to join them on the veranda , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just made coffee . |
| 12 | One of the difficulties of proceeding with the single currency , particularly if a small number of member states within the Community were to proceed on their own , is that it would become increasingly difficult for others to join them at a later stage . |
| 13 | And indeed , four people had just arrived to join them at the table . |
| 14 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |
| 15 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 16 | The Orcs were also provided with food and reinforcements by Forest Goblins who flocked to join them from the Great Forest . |
| 17 | There , men frequently migrate to the towns , leaving their families behind either to be visited at week-ends or to join them in the town at a later date . |
| 18 | And , by the way , he did have this job in Italy , but if it was in the slightest degree inconvenient to join them in the villa , he 'd book into a cheap little pensione by the railway station in Siena . |
| 19 | Both organisations have encouraged younger women to join them in the eighties and nineties and there is some indication that their membership is on the increase . |
| 20 | Far from being taken back , they were delighted by our sudden arrival , and unhesitatingly encouraged us to join them in the water . |
| 21 | No doubt we shall , once again , want to join them in the end . |
| 22 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 23 | The music school in Langbaurgh 's German twin town of Troisdorf has invited groups from the district to join them in an international concert in autumn . |
| 24 | Er I 'd like to i ask our presenters this morning to join me on the stage to take any questions from the floor and ask if you could er fill in your er y y your sur your sheets on the on today 's events before you leave please . |
| 25 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |
| 26 | I careered down the snow-slope below and sat in the shelter of a boulder to watch Roger abseil down the ice pitch , coiled the ropes and climb carefully down to join me for a marvellously welcome brew under the Shelter Stone . |
| 27 | ‘ Care to join me for a snifter , old boy ? ’ he said , buttoning on his chamois leather glove with the hole in the thumb . |
| 28 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 29 | Occasionally I would join Robins on the bridge ; at other times , when all was going well , he would come into the saloon to join me in a drink served by a Cockney steward called Tomkins ; the choice was limited , but I did n't drink much anyway . |
| 30 | Thank you gentlemen , I will now close the m meeting by asking you to join me in the the erm |