Example sentences of "to join them " in BNC.
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1 | But this year , she thought with satisfaction , she was well-prepared ; and Rodney had found a much larger place than usual and invited all and sundry to join them . |
2 | Immediately they invited him to join them , singing in their slightly squeaky voices of the charms and luxury of their lifestyle . |
3 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They urged friends to join them and so the Society of St Peter Apostle was born a hundred years ago in France . |
6 | The six teenage composer-musicians from Fartown comprehensive , off the Bradford Road , have been chosen to join them , in a project designed to widen interest in a specialised and frequently off-putting field . |
7 | New issues crowd in to join them : environmental management , repairing the damage which socialist concentration on heavy industry has inflicted on Eastern Europe , technological competition in a world where the struggle for economic supremacy is replacing the struggle for military security , migration and refugee flows on an vast scale . |
8 | The more people jumped on to the bandwagon , the more others wanted to join them . |
9 | In practice this means they can borrow more cheaply than banks and thrifts which , being unable to compete with them , have increasingly decided to join them . |
10 | Now it was lunch time and she rushed out before anyone could ask her to join them . |
11 | ‘ Are you on the way up to join them ? ’ |
12 | This is just a dry run then we 're off to join them . ’ |
13 | He would have liked to join them as he was tired of being a lurking Briton but his sense of loyalty would not allow him to defect to the other side . |
14 | She asked the traveller in jelly if he would care to join them , whereupon his Adam 's apple fluttered , and he repeated the all-purpose word ‘ lymmener ’ , which , on this occasion , they took to mean ‘ no ’ . |
15 | Hard luck yarns come crawling out of doorways to tug at his sleeve , tall tales sit slumped over coffee in badly lit diners waiting for him to join them . |
16 | Young Richard was often tempted to join them , and sometimes he did . |
17 | Many of them fled overseas , some to the American colonies , and Richard Baxter was tempted to join them . |
18 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
19 | A social was held on the Saturday night followed by an ‘ excellent cold meal served in a marquee on the lawn in front of the clubhouse , and then by country dancing to the ‘ Hambleden Hustlers ’ who induced many of the company to join them . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | If she had managed to join them as they 'd urged her to do , she would also be lying there . |
22 | He explained that they had made plans for the evening and politely invited Modigliani to join them . |
23 | On this occasion Mozart 's sister was to join them later . |
24 | Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper . |
25 | He decides to join them as he springs them from jail and they continue their journey . |
26 | Rather to join them . ’ |
27 | Franca , of course bidden to join them , sometimes did so , but soon withdrew to various ‘ tasks ’ . |
28 | RUNNING Magazine in co-ordination with adidas UK is offering 10 readers the chance to join them . |
29 | Eleanor , disguising herself as a man , attempted to join them , but was captured and spent the rest of Henry II 's reign in prison . |
30 | There he learned that the original fleet was now in Sicily and he hastened on to Messina to join them . |