Example sentences of "he join the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We began by talking politics , which he enjoyed doing with someone not out to convert him to socialism — then , as now , the established faith of most intellectuals — and , referring to A. L. Rowse 's fervent attempts , the first of many , to persuade him to join the Labour Party , he flung wide his arms and said : ‘ I refuse to be tied down to allegiances of this kind . ’ |
| 2 | I said , ‘ Has he joined the true cause ? |
| 3 | Having been in the militia in 1910 , when he was 14 , on the outbreak of war he joined the Canadian Army as a private in the Western Universities Battalion and was soon promoted NCO . |
| 4 | After a successful career in England , Willie Johnson followed the exodus of ageing British professional players to the US Soccer League , where he joined the Canadian team Vancouver Whitecaps . |
| 5 | At yesterday 's investiture he joined the newly-knighted television presenter Sir David Frost , the sports commentator David Coleman , also an OBE , and the Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies , who was invested as an MBE . |
| 6 | After entering the introductory corps at Ruffwood Comprehensive School , he joined the regular army at 16 and ‘ lived for being a soldier ’ . |
| 7 | His early interest in international co-operation drew him to Geneva and in 1931 he joined the International Labour Office . |
| 8 | In 1934 he joined the Irish Independent , with whom he worked for an eventful 50 years , latterly as its northern political editor . |
| 9 | During the Boer War he joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper , but was soon commissioned and later promoted to captain . |
| 10 | He joined the Israeli army in 1948 , fought at Latroun and in Galilee and joined up again in 1956 and 1967 . |
| 11 | His political career began in 1958 , when he joined the Young Conservatives . |
| 12 | In 1934 he joined the Confessing Church , the wing of the national ( Lutheran ) Church which refused to compromise with the Hitler government . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He joined the Liberal Party in 1968 and served on the Young Liberals ' executive committee . |
| 15 | At sixteen he joined the Gaelic League and took every opportunity to improve his writing and public speaking . |
| 16 | In 1978 he joined the Rhodesian Army , initially serving in the RLI , but later transferred to the Armoured Car Regiment . |
| 17 | He joined the Communist Party in 1946 and worked as an economic consultant to the Cuban government in the mid-1960s . |
| 18 | He joined the Civilian Branch of the Army of Occupation in Germany and in 1945 , at the age of twenty-two , became an interpreter with the US Air Force . |
| 19 | In 1816 he joined the increasing flow of Irish migrants to Britain , and worked as a cotton-spinner in Manchester . |
| 20 | He joined the Labour party in 1924 on the mistaken assumption that socialism in power would achieve economic and social reform . |
| 21 | Those who denounced him as a political maverick were not surprised when , in 1924 , he joined the Labour party . |
| 22 | He joined the Labour Party , and denounced Baldwin personally as well as politically at the 1923 election . |
| 23 | Councillor 's political background started in nineteen sixty two when he joined the Labour Party . |
| 24 | He joined the Labour Party when he was 16 and was a councillor in Lambeth . |
| 25 | He says he joined the Labour Party in 1977 , seven years after he began work with the forerunner to the present local authority . |
| 26 | He joined the historic Merchant Company in 1947 and became Master . |
| 27 | But he joined the New Party and so it er he spiked his guns for a long while . |
| 28 | Dezi 's visit to the showground continued with a canter around the main ring … and then he joined the grand parade . |
| 29 | He was the rising man in the party , only thirty-nine in 1911 when he joined the front bench , as brilliant an advocate as Carson and a man of devastating wit . |
| 30 | He joined the Blue Cross stables at Burford to enjoy his final days but wound up being depressed . |