Example sentences of "one thing [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Minister is just finishing a phone call , then I must tell him one thing before he sees you , ’ he said , briskly , glancing at the miniature switchboard beside him which sat incongruously in the draughty , high-ceilinged , dingy room . |
| 2 | But I 'll tell you one thing before I go . |
| 3 | Will you do one thing before you go though class ? |
| 4 | Just get rid of one thing before you start |
| 5 | ‘ Just one thing before you go . ’ |
| 6 | Erm one thing before we move on do you think there is a distinction or a difference between the outline agrarian land reform which is essentially 's creation , and the speech that he gives at the end of the conference ? |
| 7 | Oh , just one thing before you go , Fran . |
| 8 | ‘ But remember one thing before you go all ‘ Mafia ’ on Steve Cannock . |
| 9 | Or to say one thing while he was thinking another . |
| 10 | So you run the risk that they are thinking about one thing while you are pursuing another ; |
| 11 | Yet at times kung fu appears to contradict itself , professing one thing while seeming to do the opposite . |
| 12 | Er well it 's just I 'm ha it 's not that I 'm having more difficulty with one thing than another , it 's just that I have n't , I did n't get round to doing them . |
| 13 | Part of the trouble with Harwich is it 's neither one thing nor the other . ’ |
| 14 | As advertisers see it , the Times is neither one thing nor t' other . |
| 15 | Her chief horror is to have clothes lying around that are neither one thing nor the other . |
| 16 | This is the trouble with compromises ; there was enough dialogue to string the musical numbers together , and the abridgement guarded against tedium , but the result is neither one thing nor the other . |
| 17 | The Bidouze marks very roughly the boundary between Basse-Navarre to the west and the third Basque province of the Soule to the east , and because Saint-Palais is , additionally , very close to where the Basque country ends and the region known as Béarn begins , it is something of a transitional town , neither one thing nor the other . |
| 18 | But in the prevailing higher education culture they seem to represent neither one thing nor the other . |
| 19 | " Chicken-ducks , " neither one thing nor the other . |
| 20 | ‘ He always said it was neither one thing nor the other . |
| 21 | Because I 'm always neither one thing nor the other . |
| 22 | And when Gittel cut my pride and my heart into pieces with her little sharp fingernails , and I let loose the dybbuk on her and got punished for it , I was neither one thing nor the other , once again . ’ |
| 23 | As I said , I suppose I 'm neither one thing nor the other . ’ |
| 24 | I think , I do n't know if , I 'm finding it quite difficult at the moment because he , he 's sort of neither one thing nor the other and we 're out a lot sort of |
| 25 | Losing was one thing but to lose as spinelessly as the Welsh XV did to Bridgend on Saturday was to add insult to severely injured pride . |
| 26 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 27 | The counter-argument is that peaceful protest is one thing but violent protest crosses the boundaries of acceptability ; the value of physical integrity is such that violence and threats of violence ought not to be downgraded simply because their origins lie in some political protest . |
| 28 | A bag full of cocaine is one thing but a steak pie ? |
| 29 | The occasional sly lift is one thing but I suspect Irish referee Stephen Hilditch will become suspicious when he sees Adolf Malan waving at him from upon high while he waits for the throw . |
| 30 | Clearly , it could not have enhanced it ; why obey a legal system in which senior officials publicly pose as against one thing but privately collude in its occurrence — not only ought they to be condemned as hypocrites but their laws ought also to be disregarded as mere propaganda concealing the lack of will to control corporate behaviour . |