Example sentences of "we [prep] the house " in BNC.

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1 Employment is a two-way trade and it is as well to remember that the conditions that we in the House think can be imposed on employers may backfire on the very people whom they are supposed to help .
2 Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it
3 You set Vinnie on me to get us out the house .
4 My mother will take care of you while I get the house together , ’ he said , embracing her gently before taking us into the house .
5 He led us into the house and introduced us to his two nieces , Nosheen and Simeen .
6 After tea , her brother Lawrence shows us round the house .
7 With our daughter Sara here too , we were ten of us in the house , with Barney and his family and his in-laws joining us for several parties .
8 A headstone of Thatcherite granite stands over the ministerial grave of that consensual Tory , Francis Pym — in real life , still happily with us in the House of Lords .
9 She said , " There are ten of us in the house now .
10 They 'll be expecting us in the house . ’
11 I want to play cards , and there are only eight of us in the house today .
12 It was Christmas Eve , and there were fourteen of us in the house .
13 The information that you had extended the Division time by 10 minutes was available to those of us in the House , but not to those outside it .
14 I was particularly taken by a good phrase used by the hon. Member for Hartlepool , who suggested that we should stop using the word ’ joyriding ’ — none of us in the House does so any longer , except in unspoken inverted commas .
15 Montgomery Liberal Democrat MP Alex Carlile , a lay member of the General Medical Council , had said : ‘ Many of us in the House have some concern over the standards of general medical practice in parts of Wales . ’
16 do with us in the house .
17 ‘ I wanted to have one of us at the house . ’
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