Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the house [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought my secretary told you to meet me at the house in Edinburgh ? |
| 2 | If the jurisdiction were discretionary , no refusal to exercise it nor any failure to exercise it by the House of Lords would constitute a breach of Article 6 , but , again , if the appeal goes ahead , it must be by a process which the Convention recognises as fair . |
| 3 | Technical considerations are being completed , and I hope that we shall be able to put it to the House before long . |
| 4 | It comes to us , we have to put it through the House of Commons . |
| 5 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 6 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 7 | Remember that the vendor may not wish to have you around the house at all , so try to agree a mutually convenient time , starting at , say , 9am or 2pm , which will allow at least three daylight hours for the survey . |
| 8 | On 27 November 1609 Bowyer succeeded to the office of clerk of the parliaments and shortly afterwards brought Elsynge to assist him in the House of Lords . |
| 9 | The Government could only be brought down if sufficient Conservatives were prepared to vote with Labour and Liberal MPs to defeat it in the House of Commons , forcing a new election or opening the way to a reconstituted anti-fascist National Government . |
| 10 | Once they have completed their work , their recommendations are presented to a government minister , the home secretary , who is then required to lay them before the House of Commons for approval . |
| 11 | Anyway , ’ she added blithely , ‘ you 'll probably manage to smuggle them into the house without him seeing if you choose your time well . ’ |
| 12 | She had waited behind the hedge in the front garden , ready to smuggle him into the house without alerting the neighbours , but he never arrived : she had drunk half a bottle of white wine as she waited and now felt slightly sick . |