Example sentences of "[adv] joined the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In the event , Wilson not only joined the policy group , preparing two closely reasoned papers on which the analysis of the social causes of the rising crime rate in the group 's report was based , but agreed that his name should be included amongst the authors of the published version . |
2 | He only joined the drama group because the best chicks were in plays ; he did n't especially like dancing in his mid-teens because he had become too fat ; sports interested him , and he was fanatical about basketball . |
3 | But when the rising began on 24 April 1916 he promptly joined the rebel garrison in Jacobs ' factory . |
4 | He also joined the University Air Squadron with the motive , he later asserted , not of patriotism but self-realization . |
5 | Sir Robert Horne also joined the Shadow Cabinet . |
6 | He later joined the CNES management , before becoming in 1986 the secretary general of the Eureka committee — the French-inspired project for European co-operation in high technologies . |
7 | Though politically progressive in his youth , he later joined the Primrose League . |
8 | The Law Society today joined the Law Commission in calling for changes to the law relating to decision-making and mentally incapacitated adults . |
9 | I then joined the Air Training Corps , 336 Squadron , White City . |
10 | Fairburn then joined the railway engineering department of Siemens Dynamo Works Ltd. in Stafford and from 1913 to 1916 was assistant to the resident engineer for the electrification of the first freight railway in Britain to be operated by electric traction , the Newport ( Middlesbrough ) to Shildon line of the former North Eastern Railway . |
11 | He was the John Player Formula Two champion in 1972 and then joined the BRM Formula One team the following season as the number three driver to Jean-Pierre Beltoise ( Fra ) and Clay Regazzoni ( Swi ) . |
12 | He also made further photographic excursions into Tibet , and in 1986 briefly joined the Sipa agency in Peking . |
13 | The plight of the town 's population was graphically described yesterday by Simon Mardell , the former Aberdeen Royal Infirmary specialist in accident and emergency treatment who recently joined the World Health Organisation . |
14 | He subsequently joined the merchant service , rising in due course to become commander of a transport vessel , in which capacity he accompanied one of the expeditions to Greenland led by Sir William Parry [ q.v . ] . |
15 | He subsequently joined the family firm . |