Example sentences of "returned to parliament " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 2 | In 1557 he led a Nottinghamshire levy of 300 men to Berwick , and was returned to Parliament again in 1558 , Elizabeth 's first Parliament . |
| 3 | He promoted county petitions supporting the vote of no addresses and the trial of Charles I. But although named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , he stayed away and returned to Parliament only after the king 's execution . |
| 4 | In 1694 he was returned to Parliament , beginning a Commons career which lasted for more than sixty years as MP for Carlisle 1694–1702 , Cumberland 1708–22 and 1727–55 , and Appleby 1723–7 . |
| 5 | Dering was returned to Parliament in 1670 for East Retford in Nottinghamshire . |
| 6 | Creevey was returned to Parliament in 1820 as MP for Appleby , through his friend Brougham 's good offices with Sackville Tufton , ninth Earl of Thanet [ q.v. ] , holding this seat until 1826 . |
| 7 | In 1593 he was returned to Parliament for the Yorkshire borough of Beverley on the interest of his kinsman Lancelot Alford . |
| 8 | In 1582 and 1586 he served Leicester in the Netherlands and later in 1586 he was returned to Parliament for Callington , Cornwall . |
| 9 | Both of the Lees were returned to parliament in the election unopposed . |
| 10 | In a general election on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , the PSD , which under Cavaco Silva had been ruling as a minority administration , was returned to parliament as the first government since 1974 to command an absolute majority . |
| 11 | They had run the city respectively from 1976 to 1986 and from 1986 to December 1991 , and both were protected by parliamentary immunity , having been returned to parliament at the general election . |
| 12 | And having voted for party candidates , the electors expected the members returned to Parliament to support the program offered by their leaders at the election . |
| 13 | Hugh Dalton , returned to parliament in 1935 , had taken a leading part in reconciling the Party to rearmament and in this he was backed by Bevin , Citrine and the TUC . |
| 14 | He described Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , as an energetic minister who should be returned to parliament , not just for the town but for the North as a whole . |