Example sentences of "[verb] in the commons yesterday " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO ESSEX MPs clashed in the Commons yesterday over the likely impact on the south of the county of the proposed high speed Channel Tunnel rail link . |
| 2 | THE BBC 's new director general John Birt should repay ‘ all the tax avoided ’ when he was paid as a freelance consultant , the Prime Minister was told in the Commons yesterday . |
| 3 | He Mr Parkinson indicated in the Commons yesterday that Road pricing , a form of ‘ smart card ’ payment to drive through popular parts of London , would be impractical , and impinge on individual freedom . |
| 4 | PREMIER John Major sat squirming in the Commons yesterday as the man he dismissed as Chancellor put a bomb under him and lit the fuse . |
| 5 | So that is what he did in the Commons yesterday as he launched the Maastricht debate , not realising the only relevant list was the one to starboard as his Government had been holed below the waterline . |
| 6 | Ulster Secretary Peter Brooke said in the Commons yesterday that Whitehall 's examination of the application for 400 more officers was in its final stages . |
| 7 | THE Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , denied in the Commons yesterday that his new NHS and Community Care Bill was a first step towards privatisation and accused his critics of trying to ‘ scare the life ’ out of patients . |
| 8 | THE standard of the Queen 's Birthday Parade as a spectacle fit for a monarch was threatened by cuts in troops available for ceremonial duties , a Tory warned in the Commons yesterday . |
| 9 | No doubt he will be giving the point more thought after being assailed in the Commons yesterday over the behaviour of his Northern Ireland minister , Michael Mates . |