Example sentences of "[be] on [prep] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
| 2 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 3 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 4 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 5 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 6 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing local network-based multisystem electronic mail products , hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter roll-out : Hitachi reckons that it 's on to a good thing because veca : International Data Corp predicts the worldwide market will be 77m users in 1996 ; Hitachi is expected to make a point of integration , management and directory synchronisation likely using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol . |
| 7 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
| 8 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
| 9 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
| 10 | So any cream or potion which implies ( the advertising standards authority objects to claims that can not be proven ) that your skin will look more radiant and youthful is on to a good thing . |
| 11 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 12 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 13 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 14 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 15 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |