Example sentences of "to join [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher had chosen her time to join them with the purpose of extending their mathematical thinking and the second day 's activity shows that David had absorbed some of the ideas about size . |
| 2 | She joined the Garter knights for a reception and lunch before the ceremony before deciding not to join them for the service at St George 's Chapel . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 're going to join them on the veranda , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just made coffee . |
| 4 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |
| 5 | And indeed , four people had just arrived to join them at the table . |
| 6 | And , by the way , he did have this job in Italy , but if it was in the slightest degree inconvenient to join them in the villa , he 'd book into a cheap little pensione by the railway station in Siena . |
| 7 | Far from being taken back , they were delighted by our sudden arrival , and unhesitatingly encouraged us to join them in the water . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | No doubt we shall , once again , want to join them in the end . |
| 10 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 11 | Er I 'd like to i ask our presenters this morning to join me on the stage to take any questions from the floor and ask if you could er fill in your er y y your sur your sheets on the on today 's events before you leave please . |
| 12 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 13 | I remembered your instruction to join you at the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 14 | But now that this has happened I 'll never be able to join you in the convent . |
| 15 | ABOVE If you stop for a while , by all means allow your dog to join you in the front of the car . |
| 16 | And is that why you invited him and Heather to join you in the evening ? |
| 17 | The little man stood up and came over to join him at the fire . |
| 18 | ‘ Wants us to join him at the mortuary as soon as we can … |
| 19 | ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’ |
| 20 | Full-back Steve Mungall wants to join him on the score-sheet after bookmakers Stanley 's gave special odds on his scoring feats . |
| 21 | Llewelyn caught her by the hand as she rose , with one of those warm , moving gestures of his that came so suddenly out of the very centre of his royalty , to join him by the heart with the simplest of those who moved about him . |
| 22 | a Rostock friend , to join him in the grain trade ; he was also involved in ship and insurance broking . |
| 23 | ‘ John was away a great deal , Laura and I travelled to join him in the constituency when we could and inevitably there was uncertainty and strain in the air . ’ |
| 24 | Now she wants to join him in the ring at Moscow State Circus . |
| 25 | From Hamilton came a call from Winnie Ewing to join her on the platform at her eve of poll meeting , which ( as there was no Liberal standing ) I gladly accepted . |
| 26 | He came down to join her on the floor . |
| 27 | In four days time , Karen King was due to go to her Aunt Jane 's on the Isle of Man , still hoping to persuade Jessica to join her on the boat . |
| 28 | Blanche had left a message for the sergeant to join her in the editor 's office of Inside Out on the fourth floor . |
| 29 | ‘ What I strongly suspect — ’ Roman had strolled back to join her in the cockpit , stretching long , hair-coarsened dark legs unnervingly close to her own slender golden thighs ‘ — is that Mathilde embroidered the local myths to suit herself ! |
| 30 | but I 'm not doing it that way , cos you have to join it at the back |