Example sentences of "[to-vb] to the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't like to come to the house , ’ he went on , giving her an odd sideways smile . |
| 3 | After a short , complicated conversation in our melange of languages , she left me to battle with my clothes and the shower , returning only to tell me to come to the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 4 | What matters is that Ministers should be ready and willing to come to the House of Commons when expected to do so in order to answer questions from elected representatives on matters of genuine public interest and importance . |
| 5 | The door to his room had been closed and locked when she visited the mother , and she had not bothered to come to the house when Tatyana committed suicide . |
| 6 | He often used to come to the house . ’ |
| 7 | That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning . |
| 8 | ‘ Then why did you ask her to come to the house ? ’ |
| 9 | But when the long hard Chinese winter was nearly over , the villagers began to come to the house of Dai Huang . |
| 10 | He has had to come to the House with the Bill because he was unable to deliver . |
| 11 | Would it not be right for the Secretary of State to come to the House to say what steps are being taken to try to ensure that the sort of dishonesty and crookery that went on at MGN is not being repeated elsewhere ? |
| 12 | The next Labour Government will do it ; we will have the guts to come to the House with a solution that we think will be in the interests of the consumers , those who want to retain the special nature of Sunday , those who work in the industry and all the other interested groups . |
| 13 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 14 | I hope that it will be possible — though I shall understand if it is not — for a Minister to come to the House to say something about that major incident , which involved the jetty at Grangemouth , which is part of the dock and BP complex . |
| 15 | So they were to walk to the House the longest way , along the fringe of St James 's Park . |
| 16 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 17 | I should like to express to the House on behalf of the people whom I represent and my party our deep feeling of revulsion at what has taken place and our deepest sympathy for those who have suffered . |
| 18 | The last sentence was the cue for Miss Horsbrugh to announce to the House of Commons in April that the 10% Cut would be withdrawn and a Committee of Enquiry into adult education established instead . |
| 19 | After an optimistic report on May 30 that an official announcement would be made soon by Brooke stating that formal talks would be forthcoming between the principal constitutional parties about the political future of the province , Brook was on July 5 able to give to the House of Commons only an abridged version of the statement he had hope to make . |
| 20 | Government time will be used to submit to the House for debate , official reports , White Papers setting out government proposals and government statements on matters of topical public importance . |
| 21 | Before turning to the detail of the debate , my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health , who has been present for most of the debate , has asked me to apologise to the House on her behalf for the fact that she could not stay throughout . |
| 22 | I , too , wish to apologise to the House for not having been present at the start of this debate . |
| 23 | In mentioning the directive er can I er pause very briefly er Mr Deputy Speaker to apologise to the house that this document was not made available at the draft stage er an unfortunate combination of human error and several failures of communications meant that the select committee was deprived of the opportunity to consider the directive at its draft stage , er I 've noticed the select committee 's report which has been put in the vote office in the usual way and acknowledge the government did not meet its scrutiny obligations with regard to this document in the normal means . |
| 24 | In other words , the executive has to propose to the House that reforms should be instituted and why should any executive wish to make rods for its own back ? |
| 25 | He would be unlikely to give the Archangel Gabriel a run for his money and he should not be allowed to run to the House of Lords . ’ |
| 26 | It gives me great pleasure to commend to the House the fourth report by the Select Committee on Social Security . |
| 27 | WHILE Michael Foot makes it plain he does not wish to go to the House of Lords after the election , at least one senior Tory leaving the Lower House may also remain a commoner . |
| 28 | Meanwhile Mrs Thatcher — shortly to go to the House of Lords — welcomed the election outcome : she said : ‘ It was a famous victory with a clear majority . |
| 29 | Mrs Chalker , who is to go to the House of Lords , resumes ministerial responsibilities tomorrow when she travels to Budapest for a meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 30 | By the end of the ceremony she was so upset that she had n't the nerve to go to the house with the small party of mourners , and caught a train straight back to London . |