Example sentences of "joined the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On leaving Malaya , Skinner joined the 33rd Parachute Light Regiment , RA , at Aldershot , as a troop commander ; in 1960 he went as Adjutant to 95th Amphibious Operations Regiment , RA , in Malta . |
| 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 | He joined the Blue Cross stables at Burford to enjoy his final days but wound up being depressed . |
| 4 | So he joined the Catholic church , just to make sure … ’ |
| 5 | In 1968 he joined the Catholic Missionary Society and in 1975 he was appointed assistant priest at Muswell Hill . |
| 6 | In 1934 he joined the Confessing Church , the wing of the national ( Lutheran ) Church which refused to compromise with the Hitler government . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The jockey merry-go-round kept whirring at a fierce pace as Adrian Maguire , who rode Cool Ground to win the Gold Cup , joined the rapidly-growing casualty list at Liverpool after falling with Sibton Abbey in the Perrier Jouet Handicap Chase . |
| 9 | After St George 's , almost all Unionist candidates ran without making promises to support the coalition ; this did not mean that all of them joined the diehard group when elected , but it showed that coalition was no longer seen to be a winning ticket . |
| 10 | I had left the Co-op and joined the Civil Service as a clerical assistant in the Tax Office . |
| 11 | Nigel Pittman , trained as an actor , joined the Civil Service in Scotland . |
| 12 | When , later , I joined the Civil Service , I found it hard to follow that rule since I was constantly required to lie . |
| 13 | I joined the Labour Party because I believed in its values . ’ |
| 14 | At Oxford , Mr Gould joined the Labour Party partly in response to what he saw as an attempt by the City to frustrate the 1964 election results and he has retained a disdain for the get-rich-quick philosophy of the City ever since . |
| 15 | Most of its best organizers and natural membership joined the Labour Party . |
| 16 | She joined the Labour Party . |
| 17 | He joined the Labour party in 1924 on the mistaken assumption that socialism in power would achieve economic and social reform . |
| 18 | Those who denounced him as a political maverick were not surprised when , in 1924 , he joined the Labour party . |
| 19 | He joined the Labour Party , and denounced Baldwin personally as well as politically at the 1923 election . |
| 20 | An unemployed engineer in Coventry , who joined the Labour Party after being made redundant , walks to all his meetings and reckons he wears out his shoes three times faster than when he was working . |
| 21 | I joined the Labour Party Young Socialists and received a basic Trotskyist education . |
| 22 | She joined the Labour party in 1918 and was asked to stand for Parliament ; she refused , feeling that she could accomplish more through journalism . |
| 23 | Both joined the Labour party . |
| 24 | Councillor 's political background started in nineteen sixty two when he joined the Labour Party . |
| 25 | As one who joined the Labour party to support my predecessor John Mackintosh as a great European enthusiast , I take great pleasure in the position that has been taken by my party in recent months on this important issue . |
| 26 | Twenty years ago I joined the Labour Party when I was eighteen years old which gives an idea of how old I am now . |
| 27 | Congress , I joined the Labour Party and I became a Socialist , I remain a member of the Labour Party , I remain a Socialist , I 'm a trade unionist , I wo n't give up my Labour Party membership and I wo n't give up my involvement to my trade union and my linkage between the trade union movement and the Labour Party without a fight . |
| 28 | He joined the Labour Party when he was 16 and was a councillor in Lambeth . |
| 29 | He says he joined the Labour Party in 1977 , seven years after he began work with the forerunner to the present local authority . |
| 30 | Growing unemployment was blamed for a campaign of violence by Tuvan militants intended to drive out the Russian population , which had arrived mostly in recent decades to exploit Tuva 's mineral wealth and virgin farmland ( Tuva joined the Soviet Union only in 1944 , having been previously the nominally independent state of Tannu-Tuva ) . |