Example sentences of "[was/were] on [prep] [art] [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 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 3 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 4 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 7 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 8 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 9 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 10 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |
| 11 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
| 12 | Oh well Morse was on at the same time . |
| 13 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 14 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 15 | But the , you see if you look in the , I have information off the Birmingham secretary , er Secretary 's secretary , she was involved , she even was imprisoned in Switzerland erm when the peace movement was on between the two wars , and that was when they were , I believe it was a German woman that er that was on , you know in the committee , but I 'll have to refer to the Caring and Sharing book . |
| 16 | You were always the one that was on about a regular life . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , I know th th th there 's three floors of it and I was , I was on like the bottom floor so |
| 18 | Report author Jill Krutick said that in the meantime the race was on among the large hotel chains to achieve a pan-European presence with branded hotel products . |