Example sentences of "he joined the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had vehemently opposed Transkei 's bogus independence and , hounded by the Matanzimas , had fled to Zambia , where he joined the ANC . |
| 2 | Immediately he joined the group of hard , inflexible German communists the Soviet Union had sent to set up a puppet government in the sector of Germany they occupied . |
| 3 | He joined the team 's coaching staff after retiring in 1983 . |
| 4 | But the enthusiasm which burned inside Imre Pozsgay when he joined the party at the age of 17 has been extinguished by the bitter experiences of the past 40 years . |
| 5 | Soon after the liberation of Poland he joined the Polish regular army as a war correspondent and eventually entered Berlin with the First Polish Infantry Division . |
| 6 | Lord Joseph has been interested in the causes of poverty for a long time : as a young man he joined the Howard League for Penal Reform as well as a Quaker group which busied itself about improving the social conditions of the poor . |
| 7 | Two years later he joined the BBC to help launch Radio 1 . |
| 8 | For that reason , Sir Adrian looks back with gratitude on the job-rotation policy that was an integral part of basic training when he joined the family firm after coming down from Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 9 | Later in 1947 he joined the Nobel Division of Imperial Chemical Industries as a mining engineer specialising in explosives for the mining , quarrying and oil-prospecting industries . |
| 10 | He joined the family firm of McVitie $ Price in 1947 and became chairman in 1963 . |
| 11 | Moran was either mowing a new field or tossing the field ahead of them with the tedder but he joined the band of girls under the shade of one of the big beeches when Rose came with the basket and can . |
| 12 | A Comedie Franaise actor , he joined the Underground and found his way to London and the B.B.C. to become one of the best known announcers on Les Franais Parient aux Franais , banned by the Nazis but heard throughout France . |
| 13 | His political career began in 1958 , when he joined the Young Conservatives . |
| 14 | In a bid to get to France , he joined the Foreign Legion , escaping from that two days later . |
| 15 | After taking a degree in economics he joined the Sheffield Telegraph , moving to the Manchester Guardian in 1960 . |
| 16 | In 1934 he joined the Confessing Church , the wing of the national ( Lutheran ) Church which refused to compromise with the Hitler government . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the 1950s he joined the Shin Bet internal security service and by the early 1960s was operating secretly in Europe , running agents into Arab countries for Mossad . |
| 19 | He joined the Kennedy Administration direct from the board of the Ford Motor Company and began sweeping away waste wherever he could find it . |
| 20 | He joined the right-wing Fine Gael party in the Irish Republic and was elected to the Dail for the Dublin West constituency . |
| 21 | When he moved to Belfast he joined the DUP and campaigned for McQuade , and he became an elder of the John Knox Memorial Free Presbyterian Church in North Belfast . |
| 22 | Muhammad Hammad was a literate and qualified person , and his eldest son ( a clerk in the municipality until he joined the army ) was similarly in favour of education . |
| 23 | In 1949 he joined the Greek Archaeological Service ; he gained his doctorate in 1952 , and two years later went to complete his education at Trinity College , Oxford . |
| 24 | In 1920 he joined the newly-formed Royal Signals ( TA ) , and then transferred to the Supplementary Reserve in 1925 . |
| 25 | In 1939 he joined the Ministry of Home Security , and served as private secretary to three Lords President of the Council in succession — Sir John Anderson , Clement Attlee and Lord Woolton . |
| 26 | He joined the Territorial Army and served as a captain in the 1st Battalion of the Hertfordshire Regiment . |
| 27 | In 1939 he joined the Admiralty as an electrical engineer and went to HMS Vernon , the Navy 's torpedo and mining school at Portsmouth , where he worked on methods of defeating the German magnetic mine . |
| 28 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 29 | Hopkinson was educated at St Edward 's , Oxford , which he left at 16 for an apprenticeship in his uncle 's engineering firm at Manchester , where he joined the Territorial Army . |
| 30 | In 1935 he joined the advertising agency Young and Rubicam to apply his academic expertise to practical matters . |