Example sentences of "when they [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S MINERS DO vital job in gruelling conditions but when they went on strike they sacrificed all their earnings and were attacked by the police . |
| 2 | When they went on strike against the landlords in 1908 , blood flowed in Parma . |
| 3 | In truth this troupe did not receive the idolatry that his juveniles had aroused the previous year , but they must have pulled up their silk stockings because when they went on tour later one reviewer did describe them as : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He soon made his peace with the new regime , meeting the queen and the young king when they went on pilgrimage to Canterbury in Lent 1327 . |
| 6 | The final show in the Inspirals ' foray into Finland takes place under clouded skies , on an enormo stage , in front of a field of fully of happily drunk hippy kids who , when they walk on stage , appear to be principally interested in fighting each other , or lying on their backs staring at the clouds . |
| 7 | Every member of staff when they come on duty has a general responsibility towards all residents , but a key worker will have from three to five residents whose care is their special responsibility . |
| 8 | And when they go on holiday with Ann and the old man they used to get through a hundred pounds a day and they go for a week . |
| 9 | Are young people paid when they go on Work Experience ? |
| 10 | because when they go on coach trips |
| 11 | SCIENTISTS have found a way to put ripe pineapples ‘ to sleep ’ so they are ready for eating when they go on sale . |
| 12 | ( And when they reappeared on screen , another wave of the plastic wands did the trick again . ) |
| 13 | It was an old house in its own tidy grounds , all parquet and notice boards , three floors of quiet cells inhabited by ungainly girls who wore long skirts and tucked their legs under them when they sat on floor cushions drinking coffee . |