Example sentences of "may [pers pn] ask you " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pray , sir , may I ask you , do you think that if St. Paul happened to be travelling with us and had passed the place where he was born , that he would have pointed out the fact to us ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ May I ask you in future , Miss Kenton , to address my father as ‘ Mr Stevens ’ ? |
| 3 | This is your room , hello , we 'll have to fix that bulb , may I ask you not to flush the toilet between the hours of eleven at night and seven in the morning while the sanitation department is still in , do n't be alarmed , cockroaches are a way of life in this part of the world , the gekkos are friendly too , although they wo n't eat the spiders . |
| 4 | ‘ May I ask you a question , Mr Cramer ? ’ |
| 5 | May I ask you a question — as a doctor to his invaluable assistant ? ’ |
| 6 | Please may I ask you sir to limit yourself to your question . |
| 7 | Presently she said , ‘ I know I have n't earned another turn , all the same may I ask you a question , a semi-personal question ? ’ |
| 8 | May I ask you to … ‘ ) which give the option of refusal ; we apologize for imposing ( ‘ I 'm sorry to bother you ’ ) , and add in praise to make our hearer feel good ( ‘ You know much more about car engines than I do ’ ) . |
| 9 | May I ask you a question ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ May I ask you a question ? ’ he says . |
| 11 | May I ask you a , a voting question actually on that ? |
| 12 | So may I ask you , Leslie , yourself blessed with endless charisma and , may I say , sex appeal , where am I going wrong on the terraces ? |
| 13 | May I ask you again ? |
| 14 | May I ask you his name ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ May I ask you what you asked me last week ? |
| 16 | ‘ May I ask you what you had words about ? ’ said Greg , biting into the excellent sponge . |
| 17 | ‘ May I ask you a question , please ? ’ |
| 18 | May I ask you , Mr. Speaker , to seek some way to force , make , persuade or otherwise cajole the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland who has responsibility for such matters to make a statement to the House ? |
| 19 | May I ask you to consider what happened in case it should recur , which we all hope it will not ? |
| 20 | May I ask you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to ask the clype behind me to be quiet ? |
| 21 | May I ask you about a serious point of order , Mr. Speaker ? |
| 22 | May I ask you a question on erm , the main question on the sixth . |
| 23 | Mr may I ask you also had been told by somebody that they been planning armed robberies together . |
| 24 | ‘ May I ask you a question ? ’ |
| 25 | May I ask you something John ? |
| 26 | May I ask you something ? |