Example sentences of "elect to the house of " in BNC.

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1 FRANK Field , whose political career stood at the crossroads last night , was first elected to the House of Commons in May 1979 .
2 In 1970 I left The Times on being elected to the House of Commons .
3 Even apparently respectable citizens , family men and pillars of the establishment ( one old-time big-wave rider had been elected to the House of Representatives and was running for Hawaii State Governor ) become teenage rebels again when they wax down their boards .
4 Mrs Michael McAliskey was the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Commons as MP for Mid Ulster in 1969 .
5 The high point was reached in 1964 , when a grand total of 28 women were elected to the House of Commons .
6 , Dadabhai ( 1825–1917 ) , the first Indian elected to the House of Commons , was born in Khadak , near Bombay , 4 September 1825 , the only son of Naoroji Palanji Dordi , a poor Parsi priest , and his wife Manekbai .
7 LABOUR MP Norman Hogg plans to introduce a bill that will end the 200-year ban preventing vicars , Catholic priests and Scottish ministers from being elected to the House of Commons .
8 After serving in the US Army in Vietnam in 1969-71 , Gore worked as a journalist before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 and to the Senate in 1984 and 1990 .
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