Example sentences of "had gone on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had gone on trial on July 24 , charged with leading a raid by Pamyat militants on a meeting of the reformist writers ' group Aprel ( which had many Jewish members ) at a Writer 's Union building in Moscow on Jan. 18 . |
| 2 | In the crucial summer months of 1978 , as the Shah disintegrated , Parson had gone on home leave , as had the US ambassador . |
| 3 | Edward had gone on crusade with the future pope Gregory X , convener of the Council of Lyons . |
| 4 | On August 27 they awoke to find that food had gone on ration , as had petrol and many other necessities . |
| 5 | But nearly all the Pack were there , though Mitzi had gone on holiday . |
| 6 | If two male colleagues had gone on holiday , she said , neither would have been sacked . |
| 7 | Herbert came from a breeder who had gone on holiday without realising his owl had laid eggs . |
| 8 | It was August now , and the first time they had gone on holiday without him . |
| 9 | A few days earlier , the 40,000 miners of the Jiu Valley towns of Lupeni , Vulcan and Petrosani , in the foothills of the Carpathians two hundred and fifty miles to the north-west of Bucharest , had done the unimaginable in a communist state : they had gone on strike . |
| 10 | Unemployment was proving to be an intractable problem ; the successful Russian Revolution was not long passed , and although the police were controlling mass demonstrations of the unemployed , using violence on occasion , they too had gone on strike in August 1918 . |
| 11 | It was the time that the women machinists at Ford had gone on strike for equal pay , a struggle that was to continue , intermittently , for the next eighteen years . |
| 12 | After student protests and looting on Jan. 18-19 , doctors and teachers had gone on strike in late February , demanding better pay and conditions ; they were joined by telecommunications workers and airport staff . |
| 13 | On March 23-24 over 1,000 demonstrators , many of them unemployed , looted supermarkets and shops owned by Lebanese traders in the economic centre of Port Gentil , where oil workers had gone on strike on March 21 . |
| 14 | Up to 1,000 coalminers had gone on strike at the Valias mine near Tirana ( the capital ) on Jan. 11 . |
| 15 | At the end of March 20,000 miners had gone on strike supported by Podkrepa . |
| 16 | Her father had gone on smoking and gesturing with a nod or a headshake ; he had protested that votes were the only way , not force . |
| 17 | Those sentenced to 13 years were Chen Zeming , a 37-year-old economist who had gone on hunger strike on Feb. 7 demanding more time for the preparation of his defence , and Wang Juntao , the 32-year-old editor of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly ( of which Chen had been the publisher ) . |
| 18 | Former political prisoners had gone on hunger strike on Sept. 20 in Tirana , demanding recognition of their innocence and economic compensation . |
| 19 | In September soldiers opened fire on political prisoners who had gone on hunger strike in Insein prison ( Yangon ) ; four were killed and many others were injured . |
| 20 | Oh absolutely yes , unless it had gone on fire . |
| 21 | If it had gone on fire , we 'd have rescued it . |
| 22 | Lady Thatcher remembered the time in the late 1970s when she had gone on television and warned that people were afraid of being ‘ swamped ’ by immigrants . |