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 Life is very crude , and bonnie Princes Street a dream , but we soldier on with a good grace .
3 ‘ Not bad , ’ Gay conceded , and went on with the good work .
4 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 .
5 His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong .
6 Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing .
7 Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal .
8 Quick to latch on to a good thing , the Taiwanese have already started to adopt the All Black style of play .
9 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 .
10 you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit .
11 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 .
12 Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 .
13 She 's on to a good thing and she knows it .
14 Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing .
15 Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck .
16 ’ You put me on to a good thing , ’ he went on , ’ with Ardakke .
17 I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’
18 Both Davide and the plaintiff 's lawyer chuckled afterwards that he was definitely on to a good thing .
19 You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] .
20 They felt they might be on to a good thing .
21 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 .
22 Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing .
23 Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing .
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