Example sentences of "to join [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came with my thirteen-year-old son to join my husband who had lived here for many , many years . |
| 2 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 3 | Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she , too , was emigrating . |
| 4 | On hearing of the huge losses inflicted upon the almost defenceless people , the bombing of cities such as Guernica and Toledo — cities with no military targets — and the wholesale massacres of men , women and children , I decided to join my friends there . |
| 5 | A few days passed , then came a letter instructing me to join my unit at Enfield , London . |
| 6 | Often when ladies come along to join my class , they say , ‘ I ca n't get below 10st ( 63.5 kg ) ’ . |
| 7 | You 've been sent to join my Accident Recovery Room team as soon as possible , but I refuse to allow my gals near my . |
| 8 | Straining to ascend off the shattered glass cigarette floor in earnest attempt to join my head apertures and their height of depth sound bouncings , I had failed to allow for their wine intake and just glimpsed them rushing past in their plunge to a new yesterday . |
| 9 | From this rarefied environment of pure light and pattern , I would suddenly find myself winging across to Indonesia again , to join my brother for months of immersion in a different dimension of discovery . |
| 10 | I want more people — to carry on with your footballing metaphor — to join my team , to kick the ball for me . |
| 11 | I am happy to join my hon. Friend in those remarks and to join the BMA in its scathing remarks about the Labour leaflet . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. Friend today find time to join my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science in condemning Labour and Liberal Democrat councils , such as Nottingham , Derbyshire and Richmond , which have blocked the distribution of the parents charter ? |
| 13 | I am happy to join my hon. Friend in that tribute , which I think is the united view of the House . |
| 14 | I am glad to join my hon. Friend in congratulating those local people who have argued the strong case for ensuring that the hospital facilities at that building continue to be provided to the people of Ely . |
| 15 | Not only am I happy to join my hon. Friend in congratulating that successful exporter , but I congratulate my hon. Friend on the energetic and effective way in which he has supported Beloit Walmsley in winning those contracts . |
| 16 | ‘ Who wants to join my gang ? |
| 17 | ‘ They were worth about £18,000 , but are almost irreplaceable , as some were young cattle due to join my milking herd . ’ |
| 18 | After half an hour in each case , the mother was released to join her infant and the accompanying male . |
| 19 | Even now for a Pakistani , Indian or Bangladeshi woman waiting to join her husband in Britain it is not a matter of getting a ticket and boarding a plane . |
| 20 | In October , she and the baby moved to London to join her former boyfriend , Danny Palmer , also then 16 , who may have thought he was the father . |
| 21 | Within a few days she had resolved to flee the country — her husband would not leave his business — and to join her parents , who had settled in London in 1936 . |
| 22 | Margaret , who had been living with her married sister in Oxford , soon came to join her mother . |
| 23 | His eyes met those of Anthea Darnell for a moment , but deliberately slid away before she could invite him to join her group . |
| 24 | Miss Aitchison will be going to Cardiff for Christmas to join her mother and father , chartered surveyor Tim Aitchison . |
| 25 | Whittox Lane was , if anything , poorer than Naish 's Street , and it was here that John Titford 's eldest daughter , Ann , moved in 1828 — probably to join her sister-in-law , Sarah . |
| 26 | Then she would close the book , rise with difficulty and take a slow , often painful walk to join her daughter-in-law , the Sheikha . |
| 27 | She suddenly realised how tired she was , but she made an effort and told him that she was travelling to Rome to join her aunt and uncle . |
| 28 | Travel rep Fiona cancelled plans to join her New Zealand born boy-friend CHRIS BUDGETT , 26 , on a trek of the Everest base camp because she did n't think she was in shape . |
| 29 | Among those deported was a woman who , accompanied by her young child , fled to the UK to join her sister , Ljubitza Kendall , who lives in Leicestershire . |
| 30 | Aline was now off nights , on holiday , and spending her first week with her grandparents in Cornwall before flying to join her parents in Majorca for the two following weeks . |