Example sentences of "[pers pn] be mp for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And think of the climate — more people will want to spend their holidays with you than when you were MP for Ribble Valley . ’ |
| 2 | He was MP for Leicester South in 1983 , majority seven , lost his seat in 1987 and was returned as MP for Brighton Pavilion last Thursday . |
| 3 | For 1865 only , he was MP for Stoke on Trent , which was near another Beresford estate , and in 1868 fulfilled his ambition to be University Member for Cambridge . |
| 4 | He was MP for Oldham from 1865 until his death , a radical and a staunch advocate of free trade . |
| 5 | He was MP for that town in eleven Parliaments from 1679 to 1708 , and once for Ashburton in 1689 . |
| 6 | From 1906 to 1910 he was MP for Sutherland . |
| 7 | From 1673 to 1677 he was MP for Newark , but he did not sit . |
| 8 | He was MP for Downton from 1831 to 1832 , but the borough was destined for abolition in the Reform Act of 1832 . |
| 9 | In religion a Quaker , in politics a Liberal , he was MP for Penryn ( later Falmouth ) from 1857 to 1865 and gave general but independent support to the third Viscount Palmerston , while favouring the extension of free trade and acquiring a reputation as a respecter of the rights of all religious denominations . |
| 10 | Despite his earlier links with the parliamentary cause ( he was MP for Maidstone 1654–9 ) he pursued a moderate royalist line at the Restoration and in 1662 was made a baronet . |
| 11 | He was MP for Truro ( 1741–7 ) and receiver-general in Minorca ( 1743–57 ) . |
| 12 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 13 | He was MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury for 33 years , holding posts in the Foreign Office , Treasury and Department of Trade , Transport and Environment . |
| 14 | He was MP for Glasgow Central for nine years . |