Example sentences of "me give you an " in BNC.

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1 Let me give you an example .
2 Let me give you an example .
3 Let me give you an example .
4 Let me give you an example , one I remember because years ago when I first read the book I actually penetrated the secret .
5 Let me give you an example .
6 Let me give you an example .
7 Let me give you an example of the misuse of the press .
8 Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter .
9 No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers .
10 Erm let me give you an example .
11 But , very simply , what it really means , let me give you an illustration .
12 Let me give you an example to start with .
13 I let me give you an example , I 've always respected erm Teddy Taylor and John Biffen who have taken the extreme view on Europe .
14 Let me give you an example of how you sell the benefits one and only one thing the handle , you 've got that handle , that system
15 Let me give you an example of , of how this is done with a computer game .
16 Furthermore , it would please me to give you an allowance for your personal use . ’
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