Example sentences of "the hon. [noun] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman quoted his right hon. Friend , but he should examine the words again . |
| 2 | Mr. Walker : I can understand the Hon. Gentleman expressing his concern about the opting out of hospitals in rural Wales , having looked at some of the press comments on the proposals . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman illustrated his argument graphicaly , and so shall I. No hon. Member will forget the riots in Trafalgar square and elsewhere in the country that were provoked by those opposed to a system of taxation endorsed by Parliament . |
| 4 | I am not sure where the hon. Gentleman gets his figures from — perhaps from the same Labour party briefing on which the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) relies . |
| 5 | That is where the hon. Gentleman gets his numbers from . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman does his best to get everything out of context whenever that is possible . |
| 7 | Does he agree that in choosing the alternative route the Secretary of State for Transport was second guessing and ignoring the possibility that an environmental assessment would conclude that the general route that he has selected was as inappropriate as the one from which the hon. Gentleman thinks his constituents would suffer ? |
| 8 | If the hon. Gentleman had his way and we had an independent Scotland , we would have four votes instead of 10 and our influence in being able to fight for the interests of Scotland 's farmers would be less . |
| 9 | Let the hon. Gentleman ask his question — but briefly please . |
| 10 | The important point is that on which the hon. Gentleman put his finger — the quality of housing in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman put his finger on the cause of the problem — the excessive subsidies in Germany . |
| 12 | What a rant — the hon. Gentleman gives his well-known imitation of the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) , but without the charm and lightness of touch . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman shakes his head in disagreement . |
| 14 | I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman runs his region down instead of talking up its successes . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman puts his finger exactly on some of the issues that must be addressed most seriously . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman puts his finger on an extremely important issue which has absorbed an enormous amount of my time in the past year . |
| 17 | I suggest that the hon. Gentleman direct his remarks to Lambeth council : a reordering of its spending priorities seems to be long overdue . |
| 18 | If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ? |
| 19 | How does the hon. Gentleman square his enthusiasm for the right of veto on that occasion with the decision of the leader of his party that he would give way at Maastricht on all the issues that are now being discussed ? |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman defeated his own argument by saying that 0898 numbers are barred in the House in order to stop hon. Members exploiting them . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman has his facts diametrically wrong . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman bases his question on a premise that I do not accept . |
| 23 | I have great sympathy with the premise on which the hon. Gentleman bases his question , but such matters are best determined by individual employers and their work forces and not by the imposition of general blanket rules that may not be appropriate to individual countries or companies . |
| 24 | He has not done so and , therefore , it would be out of order for the Hon. Gentleman to pursue his present line of argument under this new clause |