Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] to parliament " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was re-elected to Parliament in 1892 , as member for North Bedfordshire , and was appointed under-secretary for India and then , in 1894 , under-secretary in the home department . |
| 2 | He was re-elected to parliament in 1978 , and then survived a long struggle against cancer . |
| 3 | During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament . |
| 4 | He was elected to parliament last December as head of the Independent Citizens ' Party , standing in the Serb-ruled ( but Albanian-populated ) province of Kosovo . |
| 5 | He was elected to Parliament as member for Aylesbury in 1880 . |
| 6 | He was elected to Parliament for Pontefract in 1774 ; he supported Lord North 's government on the American war , and was in favour of granting further relief to Protestant dissenters . |
| 7 | In 1972 , at the age of 23 , he was elected to parliament . |
| 8 | He was elected to parliament as MP for Orkney and Shetland in 1950 , and led the Liberal Party from 1956 till 1967 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1593 he was returned to Parliament for the Yorkshire borough of Beverley on the interest of his kinsman Lancelot Alford . |
| 11 | In 1582 and 1586 he served Leicester in the Netherlands and later in 1586 he was returned to Parliament for Callington , Cornwall . |