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Example sentences for "laid before the house"

  • Several gentlemen said it was the first, and not the last week in January, in which the accounts had been ordered to be laid before the House.

  • If gentlemen would look into the documents laid before the House by the President, he was confident they would find the true reason for the refusal to receive our Minister.

  • The House had not yet received the statements which had been called for relative to this business; they were directed to be laid before the House in the last week in January, and might, therefore, be soon expected.

  • He said the resolution requested certain papers to be laid before the House.

  • On the 15th of February, Sir George Saville moved that an account of all places with salaries, and all pensions payable at the exchequer or out of the privy purse, with a list of the persons holding them, should be laid before the house.

  • He concluded with a motion for an address to her majesty, desiring that the papers relating to the negotiations of the Hague and Gertruydenburgh should be laid before the house.

  • Meanwhile the commons desired that the treaties between England and the states-general should be laid before the house.

  • They seemed to be now more than ever exasperated against the ministry, and ordered a list of the privy council to be laid before the house.

  • They desired that the proceedings of the last session of parliament, relating to the union and succession, might be laid before the house.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but soon; candied lemon; combination bulk; doubt the; federal republic; had told; horizontal branch; laid aside; laid before; laid claim; laid down; laid hold; laid open; laid paper; laid rope; laid siege; laid them; laid waste; man could; many have; out here; perfect preservation; scientific instruments; till they reached the; unclean until the even; when pure