Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the house of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that |
| 2 | As far as I was concerned , that merely represented a different path to the same goal and so on 22 June I told the House of Commons that rail electrification was going ahead . |
| 3 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
| 4 | In 1987 , when she entered the House of Commons as the MP for Norfolk South West — a safe-as-houses rural Tory seat — she was already 46 , with none of the outward trappings of a high-flier , merely a proven ability to work swiftly and effectively and an unthreatening charm . |
| 5 | Soon she saw the house of the March Hare in front of her . |
| 6 | The preacher 's fiery words pursued them as they passed the house of Crutched Friars and turned left down an alleyway towards the Tower . |
| 7 | They lobbied the House of Commons for more resources and support for youth work , and later enjoyed tea with Mr Derek Foster , the MP for Bishop Auckland . |
| 8 | They wanted the House of Commons to represent the opinion of the middle orders of Britain for ( as one reforming MP put in 1830 ) " there has arisen in the minds of the wealthy and enlightened middle classes of the country a conviction that there did not exist between them and the legislature a sufficient link " . |
| 9 | He stayed in the shadows as he passed the House of Mirrors with its queue stretching outside , everyone jostling for position . |
| 10 | But he emptied the house of its demanding lodgers , some of whom subsequently abused him , when they saw him in the street . |
| 11 | He was in his forty-first year when he entered the House of Commons , six months over the watershed which Joseph Chamberlain , thirty years before , had thought was the limit if a fully effective parliamentary career was not to be precluded . |
| 12 | Shinwell , however , helped tilt the balance in favour of maintaining some regional independence , and he told the House of Commons that : |
| 13 | ‘ Excessive rates of income tax ’ , he told the House of Commons , ‘ bear a heavy responsibility for the lack lustre performance of the British economy . ’ |
| 14 | The government would end its support for the programme , amounting to some £13 million annually , in March 1993 because a " fast-breeder reactor was unlikely to become commercially viable until 2030 at the very earliest " , he told the House of Commons . |
| 15 | Urgent consideration was being given to changing the Trades Description Act , he told the House of Commons . |
| 16 | George Canning got it exactly right almost 200 years ago when he addressed the House of Commons : |
| 17 | On 14 March 1643 he petitioned the House of Lords for payment for 300 barrels of gunpowder which he had shipped from Amsterdam , but which had been confiscated by Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick [ q.v. ] , for use by the parliamentary armies . |
| 18 | Then , as they drove into the town , he saw the house of Mr Sowerberry the undertaker , and the workhouse that had been his prison . |
| 19 | He attended the House of Lords but did not speak . |
| 20 | It gave the house of Foix some claim to the succession in Bigorre and , when Esquivat died without heirs in 1283 , a conflict broke out which was not to be resolved until 1307 . |
| 21 | Four years later he left the house of William Pickering and moved to Cable Street , Liverpool . |