Example sentences of "was [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 3 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 4 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 5 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 6 | The Old Stager was on to a theme which he had clearly been bottling up all season . |
| 7 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 8 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |
| 9 | Magdalen , which had been Oscar Wilde 's college , always attracted a fair number of rarefied and aesthetic young men , and it was on to the path of this tradition that one of Lewis 's first pupils , John Betjeman , happily placed his bedroom-slippered toe . |
| 10 | If these did n't work it was on to the funerals — huge fantasy ones . |
| 11 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 12 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 13 | Another Methuselah of Lutomer Riesling later , it was on to the Safeway own-brand cod fish fingers served on a bed of baked beans , accompanied by large dishes of McCain 's oven chips and Findus frozen peas , with a choice of HP sauce or plain ketchup . |
| 14 | After that it was on to the theatre for the evening show , then back to the Theatre Girls ' Club for , if they are to be believed , another meal of egg and chips . |
| 15 | Then it was on to the Salvation Army old people 's home where one resident remarked : ‘ How beautiful you are . |
| 16 | Within a short while he was on to the subject of Libya 's exports . |
| 17 | Then it was on to the chapel , where work from other faculties and departments was on show . |
| 18 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
| 19 | The Admirable Crichton was on at the Royalty , the Three Ragtime Boys at the Alhambra , and at A. E. Pickard Unlimited 's Panopticon ( Doors open at six during the Spring holiday ) , there was ‘ Fancy Fair and the Laughter Mirrors ’ . |
| 20 | What he had was a pampered , spoilt brat whose only interest in life was lipstick and what was on at the pictures . |
| 21 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 22 | I was on at the time , I had my period . |
| 23 | Oh well Morse was on at the same time . |
| 24 | Cos she 'd been wanting to do Aladdin for a couple of years but it was on at The Playhouse |
| 25 | And then it was on at the Theatre Royal . |
| 26 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 30 | For the next picture , it was on with the stage makeup and into something a little more outrageous — Betty 's turn , in other words . |