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

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1 I went along to join them .
2 Often when ladies come along to join my class , they say , ‘ I ca n't get below 10st ( 63.5 kg ) ’ .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Eventually she strolled in to join them .
6 What 's that ? ’ asked Uncle Albert , coming in to join her .
7 The original plan was for Seawitch to be delivered to the marina by the tenth and we 'd fly in to join her there . ’
8 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 .
9 Doctors did n't think Kelly Good would be fit enough to join her class mates until next term .
10 His cousin Samuel was now old enough to join his father and take his place as heir to the business , and the two young men were never compatible .
11 What distinguishes visionary leadership is that through words and actions , the leader gets the followers to ‘ see ’ his or her vision — to see a new way to think and act — and so to join their leader in realizing it .
12 With a nod , Rose hurried down to join her sister and Ellie heard the back door slam as they hurried out .
13 From time to time , a leaf would detach itself and sashay down to join its friends , slicing rideways , plunging headlong and then ripple-dissolving to the damp grass .
14 But for the first time in their life together she rose , slipped on a dressing gown , and went down to join him .
15 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 .
16 He came down to join her on the floor .
17 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 . )
18 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 .
19 She projected a sort of calm , a lack of strife , and so he went over to join her .
20 Corbett smiled wanly at Selkirk , nodded his thanks and walked over to join her .
21 Benjamin came over to join me .
22 When our eyes met he unfolded his arms , stood up and walked slowly over to join me .
23 She hurried over to join them .
24 He looked tired but nevertheless managed a smile as he caught sight of his two employees and walked over to join them .
25 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 .
26 The other man moved over to join them , gripping Connelly 's right arm so that his hand was groping at empty air .
27 A quick dab of Youth Dew and then she sauntered over to join him .
28 But he was grinning and called us over to join him .
29 The little man stood up and came over to join him at the fire .
30 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 .
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