Example sentences of "to join her " in BNC.

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1 After half an hour in each case , the mother was released to join her infant and the accompanying male .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Margaret , who had been living with her married sister in Oxford , soon came to join her mother .
6 His eyes met those of Anthea Darnell for a moment , but deliberately slid away before she could invite him to join her group .
7 Miss Aitchison will be going to Cardiff for Christmas to join her mother and father , chartered surveyor Tim Aitchison .
8 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 .
9 Then she would close the book , rise with difficulty and take a slow , often painful walk to join her daughter-in-law , the Sheikha .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 In March , her friend Mary-Ann Stewart-Richardson invited her to join her family on their skiing holiday in the French Alps .
15 She was wholly relieved that he had gone , for his absence enabled her safely to join her friends , to receive their questions and their anecdotes , and to hear of the brazen , wonderful audacity of Janice , who had not yet returned to the fold , and who had been seen leading , yes , leading her captive from the floor , in search of fresher air and darker night .
16 It was probably this advance which persuaded Eleanor that the time had come to join her sons .
17 " Well , we 'll have to hope not , " and the policewoman retreated to join her own in the back room .
18 On her high heels she teetered downstairs to join her father .
19 Kersey said : ‘ So on the basis of what you 've told me you concluded that Inez was off to join her boyfriend in Exeter — is that it ? ’
20 He spent his nights with Taheb , but these days he had begun to notice the glances the servants gave him , and made excuses when she wanted him to join her dinner guests .
21 I 'd like to think that , if you had known , you would n't be prepared to join her husband , but that would be stretching credulity too far . ’
22 In that sensible frame of mind she had hurried downstairs to join her daughter — who had beaten her to the breakfast table again ! — and her host in the sunny conservatory .
23 With a nod , Rose hurried down to join her sister and Ellie heard the back door slam as they hurried out .
24 I was among her escort to Bristol when Stephen made the idiotic mistake of allowing the Countess to join her half-brother . ’
25 They 'd been betrothed since she was two and , when she reached puberty , she 'd left her home village several miles away and came to join her husband and his extended family .
26 Her husband , although not a ‘ representative ’ , was expected to join her later in the day .
27 detach itself to join her gentian train ,
28 Poole , and sailed on 14th December to join her new owner 's fleet .
29 ‘ Only because I could n't work out how you were doing it , ’ I said , and she laughed some more and asked if I wanted to join her friends .
30 And then , opening the other eye , she saw that the other little girl , Emma — or was it Sophie ? — had leaped on to the bed to join her sister .
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