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Example sentences of "[adv] to join [pers pn] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I went along to join them .
2	She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him .
3	New issues crowd in to join them : environmental management , repairing the damage which socialist concentration on heavy industry has inflicted on Eastern Europe , technological competition in a world where the struggle for economic supremacy is replacing the struggle for military security , migration and refugee flows on an vast scale .
4	Eventually she strolled in to join them .
5	What 's that ? ’ asked Uncle Albert , coming in to join her .
6	The original plan was for Seawitch to be delivered to the marina by the tenth and we 'd fly in to join her there . ’
7	People I had n't yet identified beckoned her eagerly to join them , which she did with the ravishing smile she had loosed once or twice in my direction .
8	But for the first time in their life together she rose , slipped on a dressing gown , and went down to join him .
9	I careered down the snow-slope below and sat in the shelter of a boulder to watch Roger abseil down the ice pitch , coiled the ropes and climb carefully down to join me for a marvellously welcome brew under the Shelter Stone .
10	He came down to join her on the floor .
11	The valley takes its name from the Entlen torrent , a tributary of the Little Emme , which races down to join it from the slopes of the Glaubenberg mount which separates this valley from the parallel valley in which lie the Lungern and Sarnen Lakes ( and the road from Brunig Pass . )
12	We were sitting in the hall finishing off our meal of light ale , freshly baked bread and strips of salted pork , when the others drifted down to join us .
13	She projected a sort of calm , a lack of strife , and so he went over to join her .
14	Corbett smiled wanly at Selkirk , nodded his thanks and walked over to join her .
15	Benjamin came over to join me .
16	When our eyes met he unfolded his arms , stood up and walked slowly over to join me .
17	She hurried over to join them .
18	He looked tired but nevertheless managed a smile as he caught sight of his two employees and walked over to join them .
19	Jacques Devraux and half-a-dozen Moi trackers were waiting beside the narrow river that flowed past the camp , and the senator put his arm lightly around his son 's shoulders as they walked over to join them .
20	The other man moved over to join them , gripping Connelly 's right arm so that his hand was groping at empty air .
21	A quick dab of Youth Dew and then she sauntered over to join him .
22	But he was grinning and called us over to join him .
23	The little man stood up and came over to join him at the fire .
24	She carried her sandwich over to join him , saying : ‘ My excuse for being down here is that I have n't a moment to spare .
25	I felt guilty — after all , they had trained me — but in the end I saw so many of my friends making the move , I saw them working in better conditions , earning so much more for fewer hours , ’ she grimaced , ‘ in the end I decided I 'd be crazy not to join them . ’
26	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 .
27	‘ We were disappointed that you decided not to join us , ’ she said , keeping her eyes intent on the table .
28	Perhaps she has decided not to join us , ’ he added innocently , hugging to himself his knowledge of the dramatic scene he had encountered .
29	By this time Gorbad Ironclaw 's reputation had spread amongst all the Orc and Goblin tribes of the Great Forest , and many more green-skinned warriors flocked southwards to join him .
30	Among the Welsh core of the ‘ Laura Ashley ’ business was not only Meirion but , shortly to join them , his sister Carol ( now Jones ) , as well as his brother Alan , Phil Morris , Dai Jones , the Hughes family and others .