Example sentences of "[pers pn] was on to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If these did n't work it was on to the funerals — huge fantasy ones . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then it was on to the Salvation Army old people 's home where one resident remarked : ‘ How beautiful you are . |
| 10 | Then it was on to the chapel , where work from other faculties and departments was on show . |
| 11 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 12 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 13 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 14 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 15 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 16 | Within a short while he was on to the subject of Libya 's exports . |