Example sentences of "it [be] one [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er er er it 's it 's one magnet working a against another . |
| 2 | However , we 'll see about that — it 's one thing jumping well in your own gym , but it 's another one altogether doing it in a stadium — in a championship — with thousands of people looking at you . |
| 3 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
| 4 | It 's , it 's one thing legislating , it 's a completely different ball game when you are , erm , trying to enfor enforce it , and especially when you 're trying to enforce it with ingredients imported from abroad . |
| 5 | I mean , it 's one thing running along the road before breakfast when you 're twenty is n't it ? |
| 6 | ‘ It is one thing taking a woman into your house , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 7 | It is one thing climbing up a steep and slippery slope with no weight on your back , and altogether a different thing climbing up with 40kg of camera equipment . |
| 8 | It is one thing cutting a neckline which is on the bias , quite another to cut between stitches for the length of a front . |
| 9 | And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry . |
| 10 | It was one thing living dangerously , quite another encouraging other people to do so , putting their lives at risk … putting her mother 's life at risk … |
| 11 | It was one thing imagining the scene from the comfort of her London flat but quite another to find herself going through with it . |
| 12 | It was one thing behaving in his limp way whenever he himself felt like doing so . |
| 13 | I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class . |