Example sentences of "[was/were] on to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 4 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 5 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 6 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 7 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |