Example sentences of "on [prep] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
| 2 | Now the search is on for the best container display in Britain . |
| 3 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 4 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 5 | The search is on for the best pancake tosser in the North . |
| 6 | Life is very crude , and bonnie Princes Street a dream , but we soldier on with a good grace . |
| 7 | ‘ Not bad , ’ Gay conceded , and went on with the good work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 10 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 11 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 12 | Quick to latch on to a good thing , the Taiwanese have already started to adopt the All Black style of play . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
| 17 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
| 18 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 19 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 20 | ’ You put me on to a good thing , ’ he went on , ’ with Ardakke . |
| 21 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
| 22 | Both Davide and the plaintiff 's lawyer chuckled afterwards that he was definitely on to a good thing . |
| 23 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 24 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 25 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 26 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 27 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
| 28 | Some of the sites are enormously rich , however , and the history of palaeontology is punctuated by quite unscientific feuds between experts trying to find and hold on to the best sites for the most spectacular vertebrates . |
| 29 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |