Sentence examples for actually asking you from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "actually asking you" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that a question or request is genuine and directed towards the person being addressed.
Example: "I know it might seem like a joke, but I am actually asking you if you want to join us for dinner."
Alternatives: "truly asking you" or "genuinely asking you".

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So we're actually asking you to do something this time around rather than just leaving something in the comments.

Your chances of winning this gear is so much greater in this contest than our other giveaways partly because we're actually asking you to do something this time around.

Otsmane-Elhaou says the writer and illustrator "aren't bothered about making you suspend disbelief and sit back and read, and have that frictionless experience, they're actually asking you, a little bit, to become more of an active participant in their story".

They've got two ways of asking to sit down: actually asking you to sit down, something so straight and direct it goes violently against my in-baked Englishness and makes me balk so hard I'm already upright, on my feet, before I even know it.

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The question I actually asked you was: would you reveal the information about your costs.

"Did she actually ask you to do that?" my inner voice asks, angrily.

Then, when they actually ask you, you may be able to say it.

Let me actually ask you a quick question on universal child care.

While you should answer the person who actually asked you the question, you should try and make them all feel included, she says.

In terms of content, that means taking the time to create a list of sample questions in advance that you think the host might ask you (some hosts will actually ask you for that list as a means of both ensuring they hit the right points and outsourcing their preparation).

NextGoals: NextGoals is an app that actually asks you to work out and then verifies that you went to the gym.

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