Example sentences of "on [prep] a 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 5 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 6 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 7 | Quick to latch on to a good thing , the Taiwanese have already started to adopt the All Black style of play . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
| 12 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
| 13 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 14 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 15 | ’ You put me on to a good thing , ’ he went on , ’ with Ardakke . |
| 16 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
| 17 | Both Davide and the plaintiff 's lawyer chuckled afterwards that he was definitely on to a good thing . |
| 18 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 19 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
| 22 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |