Example sentences of "[num] he joined the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 2 | In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme . |
| 3 | In 1903 he joined the royal commission on the coal supplies of Great Britain ( 1901–5 ) . |
| 4 | In 1920 he joined the newly-formed Royal Signals ( TA ) , and then transferred to the Supplementary Reserve in 1925 . |
| 5 | On 22 May 1807 he joined the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth for a period of eighteen months after which , as a midshipman , he served in Lavinia in the Mediterranean and north Atlantic for more than three years . |
| 6 | At sixteen he joined the Gaelic League and took every opportunity to improve his writing and public speaking . |
| 7 | In 1916 he joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers and was posted to Mesopotamia as meteorological officer ; he was mentioned in dispatches . |
| 8 | In 1916 he joined the Royal Flying Corps as an officer in an experimental squadron developing new flying formation and fighting techniques , and he attained the rank of major in 1918 . |
| 9 | After 1949 he joined the Foreign Ministry and served in London between 1954 and 1962 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1978 he joined the Rhodesian Army , initially serving in the RLI , but later transferred to the Armoured Car Regiment . |
| 12 | In 1816 he joined the increasing flow of Irish migrants to Britain , and worked as a cotton-spinner in Manchester . |
| 13 | In 1987 he joined the national office to run projects on smoke-free air in public places . |
| 14 | In 1923 he joined the Fascist party . |
| 15 | In 1934 he joined the Confessing Church , the wing of the national ( Lutheran ) Church which refused to compromise with the Hitler government . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In 1934 he joined the Irish Independent , with whom he worked for an eventful 50 years , latterly as its northern political editor . |
| 18 | In October 1861 he joined the local branch of the Geological Survey as assistant geologist . |
| 19 | In 1899 he climbed Mount Lumpa in Nepal and in 1900 he joined the Allied march on Peking during the Boxer rising . |
| 20 | In April 1889 he joined the Socialist League in Dundee , then moved to Edinburgh , where he worked as a carter . |
| 21 | From 1936 he joined the parliamentary labour advisory committee , opposing land bills in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia . |
| 22 | His early interest in international co-operation drew him to Geneva and in 1931 he joined the International Labour Office . |
| 23 | In 1919 he joined the English Electric Company Ltd . |
| 24 | Because of the outbreak of war he abandoned plans to do research and took an industrial job , but in September 1915 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private soldier and served with the British Expeditionary Force . |
| 25 | In 1968 he joined the Catholic Missionary Society and in 1975 he was appointed assistant priest at Muswell Hill . |
| 26 | He transferred shortly afterwards to the Dragon as an able seaman , but in 1761 he joined the Arrogant as a midshipman . |