Example sentences of "if you ask i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Waste of time if you asks me . |
| 2 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 3 | And you should n't ask me — it 's a leading question and if you asked me that in court the judge would intervene and tell the recorder to strike it out ! |
| 4 | But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of |
| 5 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 6 | But , if you asked me what I did during those months , I could n't come up with anything constructive . ’ |
| 7 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 8 | Well if you asked me that ten or fifteen years ago I think I could have given a rather easy answer erm namely that development studies was concerned with the problems of countries in Africa , Asia and Latin America , and how they could erm accelerate their economic , social and political development to provide better living standards for all their population . |
| 9 | ‘ Sight too famous nowadays , if you ask me , ’ Arabella Buckley pronounced . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's more , he was hanging around the cake display , looking rather shifty , if you ask me . ’ |
| 11 | Nanny and rotten news seem to go together if you ask me . |
| 12 | Though if you ask me he 's a nasty piece of work who would n't bat an eyelid whatever she might do … |
| 13 | ‘ Well I have n't heard the official report because I had to go to my board meeting , but if you ask me , Maggie 's dragon did it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A fly one too , if you ask me , getting a sharp little customer like Charlie Hatton to part with two hundred for thirty-two teeth . |
| 15 | ‘ And it was n't today or yesterday he began either , if you ask me . |
| 16 | A typical bloody banker , if you ask me . |
| 17 | If you ask me , The Smiths could have afforded to be more humorless . |
| 18 | The bloke who made up those tests was the real loony if you ask me . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's very unfair if you ask me . |
| 20 | If you ask me , that 's the first step to black market . |
| 21 | If you ask me , I do n't think she even remembers he 's gone . |
| 22 | ‘ Nothin' between here and Russia if you ask me . |
| 23 | It 's because of his own hang-ups , if you ask me . |
| 24 | I can walk in 120 and sing in 105 ; and if you ask me to sing in 105 now , I will manage it . |
| 25 | ‘ Pretty ? pretty awful , if you ask me . |
| 26 | ‘ Pupils who write could of are applying good phonic principles of writing , ’ wrote one trendy clown of an educationist , ‘ because they always hear the unstressed ‘ have ’ of ‘ could have ’ reduced in pronunciation ’ ( yes , on radio and TV — and , if you ask me , this asda be bad ) . |
| 27 | If you ask me , all he was interested in was getting to his pick-up point on time . ’ |
| 28 | If you ask me , we should never have let Mr Kebbel go . ’ |
| 29 | Too bloody long , if you ask me , he said . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's just a PR stunt , if you ask me . |