Example sentences of "[adv prt] to a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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1 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
2 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
3 | Quick to latch on to a good thing , the Taiwanese have already started to adopt the All Black style of play . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
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 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
10 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
11 | ’ You put me on to a good thing , ’ he went on , ’ with Ardakke . |
12 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
13 | Both Davide and the plaintiff 's lawyer chuckled afterwards that he was definitely on to a good thing . |
14 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
15 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
16 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
17 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | hold on to a finished thing ? |
20 | Most of you simply because they have no shame , now bringing it round to a spiritual thing , how can we show that we , where it describes there beggars for the spirit , it really means having no shame whatsoever in the truth , never hold back in demanding really , what your requirements are in the way of spiritual things and a good mirror to this is analyze yourself and ask yourself what am I like , am I really a beggar in spirit , what am I like when the magazines come ? |