Example sentences of "able to join [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The seventeen pensioners who were able to join us for the annual get-together enjoyed themselves immensely and are already looking forward to next year 's trip ! |
| 3 | We were also delighted that so many employees and their families were able to join us in the evening after the opening ceremony to look around the plant for the first time . |
| 4 | It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future . |
| 5 | But now that this has happened I 'll never be able to join you in the convent . |