Example sentences of "ask you this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 2 | I 'm asking you this as a real favour . ’ |
| 3 | ask you , ask you this , what , what did your father say to you about the tinkers ? |
| 4 | ‘ I seem to recall having asked you this question before . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry to have to ask you this , but are you an alcoholic at all ? ’ |
| 6 | So if you compare critical illness and death with what happens at the time , and I 've got to ask you this . |
| 7 | I just want to ask you this . |
| 8 | I 'd just like to ask you this , I know you ca n't answer , but why are you making us say this stuff ? |
| 9 | ’ Mebbe it 's unfair tae ask ye this kinna favour , but , man , we can nae always be hingin' oan tae oor pride . ’ |
| 10 | That 's a perfectly fair question , but let me ask you this . |
| 11 | Let me ask you this question first of all , do you like football ? |
| 12 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 13 | mm , I think maybe at the start though when I said do you have a beautiful body , maybe I asked the wrong questions , let me ask you this question at the end , do you like your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no , and maybe we 'll get a different answer then , eighty five people said no they did n't have a beautiful body , but fifty six people here say yes they like their body , forty four is too many people who do n't , why not ? , who said no ? , why , why do n't you ? , yes |
| 14 | Let me ask you this final question . |
| 15 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 16 | who have , well in fact , I must ask you this would you , would you like to have a gun ? , button one for yes , button two for no , I 'll tell you my own view on this after you 've voted and nine of you say yes you would , what , what , would any body liked to say why they 'd like to have a gun ? , yes |
| 17 | the wheel of the car , I mean I wonder , I wonder what you think of that , let me ask you this question , do erm , do men 's personalities change behind the wheel do you think ? , button one for yes , button two for no and vote now , and you 'll be interested to know that in this hundred eighty five of you think that personalities change , do they get better ? |
| 18 | Well let me ask you this in this case , do women 's personalities change behind the wheel ? , button one for yes and button two for no well , well , well |
| 19 | mm , mm , were , were talking about what happens when people who have fallen in love get together and decide to stay together for a bit and its been suggested that marriage can put some strains on er what started off as a very heady mutual experience , if your lucky , let me ask you this , do you think marriage destroys love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , does marriage destroy love ? , as you understand it mm a few are not sure but thirty people have said yes , who said yes |
| 20 | ‘ You again , ’ he would say , ‘ what should I ask you this time ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If you want to take a detour from polite conversation then let me ask you this : despite all that money and all those fancy clothes and wild parties , you 're not very happy , are you ? ’ |
| 22 | The client will almost definitely ask you this . |
| 23 | Well let me ask you this question , would you say that using drugs has improved your life ? |
| 24 | now can we look Mr at the print below the table , costs , questions and answers we find that many people considering purchasing a apartment have similar questions can I ask you this , would you personally ever deal with people who were considering purchasing a apartment ? |
| 25 | ‘ I can see you 're very upset , but I did ask you this morning — remember ? |
| 26 | now I did ask you this before and still puzzling me , where , where does this fit in to article eighty five ? |