Example sentences of "let me [vb infin] [pron] this " in BNC.
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1 | Erm to give you an example let me show you this brochure here this is Page and Moy high prices and clearly that is aimed at A and B. |
2 | Now look , now , now just let me tell her this |
3 | just let me tell her this is |
4 | But listen , Bobbie , and let me tell you this : if you ever come to Victoria again without visiting me , you 'll never be a pall-bearer at my funeral ! ’ |
5 | On the subject of strange names , let me tell you this ( and I am now serious ) : The sweet-shop at South Portland Street , opposite our tenement , wherein most of our pocket-money was spent , was owned by a tall , bearded , orthodox Jew . |
6 | And let me tell you this : should you in any way try to get in touch with me , even go to the partners and ask for my whereabouts , I swear before God — ‘ He now raised his hand in a dramatic fashion and paused before he added , ‘ See , I 'm taking an oath . |
7 | That 's a perfectly fair question , but let me ask you this . |
8 | Let me ask you this question first of all , do you like football ? |
9 | 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 |
10 | 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 |
11 | Let me ask you this final question . |
12 | 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 |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | 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 |
15 | 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 |
16 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
17 | Well let me ask you this question , would you say that using drugs has improved your life ? |
18 | ‘ Let me put it this way , child . |
19 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
20 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
21 | Let me put it this way : presiding over the darkness out of which I had loomed there was a figure , a male shape , with an entirely unmanageable aura , containing such things as beauty , terror , love , filth , and above all power . |
22 | ‘ Let me put it this way , Sir Robert , if Moodie dreaded our return then he had very little to fear . ’ |
23 | Well let me put it this way er it 's the two's company three 's a crowd problem . |
24 | Let me put it this way to you Noel |
25 | He recognizes her but how , how many er , let me put it this way , if the police came to your house to talk to your mother , would you expect them to recognize her , or would you expect him to say , oh my God they 've come ? |
26 | The first is er , erm , well let me put it this way , not the last one of the sessions I did here , but the one before that , there was a huge guy sitting about where Colin is sitting . |
27 | well er let me put it this way , if there , if there is good reason , good objective reason for preventing a person competing in the sugar market then article eighty five does n't follow |
28 | Let me put it this way , and I think this may please the Noble Lord MacIntosh , there are moments when this House is in danger of being too conservative . |
29 | Oh well if you let me have it this week I 'll let you have it back at the weekend . |