Example sentences of "was [adv prt] to [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 | Next up was David Stewart of Charles Wilson Booksellers , a veteran of the school market , who warned that Roy Davey 's suggestion that ‘ it was down to every publisher to be in schools selling their own books ’ would in his view lead to chaos . |
| 19 | Golden Girl 's lead was down to a quarter of a mile . |
| 20 | By the time he was 22 he was down to a 9 handicap and was off 2 when he turned professional at the start of last year . |
| 21 | THE golden secret of China 's Olympic swimmers was revealed yesterday — their medal haul was down to a potion made of toad skins , birds ' nests and dried snakes . |
| 22 | That the Pendletons ' party ended up at Reading was down to a fair measure of fluke . |
| 23 | By the time I had finished , the tank water was down to a hardness 180 p.p.m. with a pH of 6.8 . |
| 24 | Visibility was down to a few yards . |
| 25 | ‘ Their first goal was down to a mistake and the second was so easy for them it defies belief . |
| 26 | In February 1989 inflation was down to a monthly rate of 3.6 per cent compared with 28.8 per cent in December 1988 and 37 per cent in January 1989 , but accelerated sharply over the following months , reaching a monthly rate of 53.55 per cent by December . |
| 27 | By late August 1982 , with the start of Iraqi attacks on Kharg Island ( which in Iran 's peak production years in the 1970s handled nearly all the country 's export volume ) , the volume was down to a meagre 700,000 b/d from 1.8 million the preceding month . |
| 28 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 29 | It was down to a miskick by City Manager , Russell Osman , but it was no more than Town deserved and Marwood took the chance brilliantly . |
| 30 | Swindon has grown economically in the last 15 years and the unemployment level was down to a record low 2 to 3 years ago . |