Example sentences of "went on [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Havelock North we went on south to Wellington , driving through the Manawatu Gorge in a thunderstorm so heavy we had to pull up . |
| 2 | Stepan Khmara , a Ukrainian Supreme Soviet deputy from the Ukrainian Republican Party , went on trial on May 14 in Kiev , on charges of exceeding his authority , hooliganism , damaging personal and state property and organizing mass disturbances . |
| 3 | Licio Gelli , the former grand master of the P-2 Masonic lodge , and 15 others went on trial on Oct. 12 following 11 years of investigation by magistrates . |
| 4 | Another three Timorese went on trial on March 17 accused of " general crimes " . |
| 5 | He went on trial on Jan. 30 , 1990 , charged with the murder of six crew members of the cargo ship Lucona when it blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 , the attempted murder of six other crew members who survived , and attempted fraud . |
| 6 | The two hardline leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) Abassi Madani , 61 , and Ali Belhadj , 35 , went on trial on June 27 in Blida . |
| 7 | In January 1990 , 20 Fijian Indians went on trial in Lautoka in connection with the Australian arms haul . |
| 8 | Mrs Marcos went on trial in New York this week , on March 20th , by coincidence the day on which the contents of her letter to Mr Bush was disclosed . |
| 9 | The men all denied charges of conspiracy to riot and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm when they went on trial in October last year . |
| 10 | A MAN went on trial in Liverpool today accused of murdering his pregnant wife . |
| 11 | Before the election in November 1972 , Nixon stated that no one in the White House knew anything of the plan ; and there the matter rested until the Watergate burglars went on trial in January 1973 before Judge Sirica in Washington . |
| 12 | Eight Israelis went on trial in Ramla on March 27 on charges of having met PLO officials in Budapest in July 1987 . |
| 13 | This will be applauded by European business , but would be some irony for a man who made his name defending workers who went on strike under Franco . |
| 14 | More than 70,000 miners went on strike on March 1 in protest at European Community ( EC ) plans to reduce state subsidies to the coal industry . |
| 15 | An estimated 70,000 public-sector workers went on strike on May 10 after the government had unilaterally revoked the Civil Service Law , which protected the rights of public-sector workers . |
| 16 | Transport workers and some miners went on strike on Sept. 2 , affecting most airports , major railway junctions ( reportedly causing difficulties on Russia 's railways ) and 39 coal mines . |
| 17 | More than 2,000 state employees went on strike on April 7 , 1989 , in support of a pay demand to establish wage parity with the private sector . |
| 18 | Ten rail unions representing some 250,000 workers went on strike on April 17 after failing to resolve a three-year dispute with management over wages , health care and working conditions . |
| 19 | Bank workers went on strike on Feb. 4 and occupied the headquarters of the National Savings and Insurance Bank in the capital , Buenos Aires , in protest at the announcement that it was to be privatized , Cavallo withdrawing this intention on Feb. 5 . |
| 20 | Some 20,000 railway workers in the region around Iasi city in north-eastern Romania went on strike on Feb. 8 . |
| 21 | All 6,200 dockworkers ' at Klong Toey , Bangkok 's port and the busiest in Thailand , went on strike on Jan. 30 , 1990 , to protest against a government plan to privatize a new deep-sea container port at Laem Chabang , on the eastern seaboard development area , which was due to begin operations in 1991 . |
| 22 | Postal workers in the eastern Länder , whose salaries were 60 per cent lower than their western counterparts , went on strike on Jan. 24 in support of demands for a one-off payment equivalent to a 13th month 's salary to compensate for increased living costs . |
| 23 | Nearly 140,000 workers in 53 jute mills across West Bengal went on strike on Jan. 28 demanding higher wages . |
| 24 | Thousands of Swiss women went on strike on June 14 to mark the 10th anniversary of the country 's equal rights law . |
| 25 | Students of Belgrade University went on strike on June 14 , supported in their demands by the teaching staff . |
| 26 | These apparent successes encouraged similar action by others , notably railway workers at the Maputo port workshops , who went on strike from Jan. 2 to 4 demanding pay owed since 1987 as well as payment of the traditional " 13th month " bonus . |
| 27 | Post Office and health workers staged warning strikes , and in the Fier district , oil industry workers went on strike from Nov. 13 , despite an earlier strike having been deemed illegal on Nov. 4 at a meeting of the Council of Ministers . |
| 28 | About one-third of the staff of Albanian Radio and Television ( RTV ) went on strike from Nov. 1 in support of demands by the Independent Radio-Television Trade Union for the resignation of RTV 's directors , a demand supported by the Democratic Party , whose deputies boycotted the debate on the status of RTV in the People 's Assembly . |
| 29 | Lawyers went on strike from Nov. 9 to protest at what the bar association said were the arbitrary arrests of four of its members in North-West Province . |
| 30 | Members of the secondary school teachers ' union ( LOME ) went on strike in July 1990 in support of a 15 per cent salary increase and improved training and conditions [ see also September 1990 strikes and July austerity measures p. 37721 ] . |