Example sentences of "let me ask [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now confidence has manifested in lots and lots of ways and its appealing to that confidence as much as the insecurity , er that makes the advertiser 's and the manufacturer 's of all manner of products er , their huge profits , now I guess we all spend money on , on various products and er , do you , do you worry about how much you spend on the body beautiful or just the body ? , do you or , I mean does any , I wonder if you think you spend too much on it ? , let me ask you that , do you spend too much money on your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no . |
| 2 | I mean I do n't , I wonder , do , do any of you have a gun ? , let me ask you that |
| 3 | Let me ask you that question . |
| 4 | " Well , sir , I 'm not going to be able to help you unless you let me ask you some questions . |
| 5 | That 's a perfectly fair question , but let me ask you this . |
| 6 | Let me ask you this question first of all , do you like football ? |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Let me ask you this final question . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | Well let me ask you this question , would you say that using drugs has improved your life ? |
| 16 | Similarly the stages of a formal spoken discourse are also often clearly marked with utterances such as ‘ I rest my case ’ , ‘ Let me ask you another question ’ , or ‘ Next witness ’ . |
| 17 | Let me ask you another question . |
| 18 | Let me ask you another question , or looking , looking towards the future . |