Example sentences of "i begin [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I begin by asking you how |
| 2 | May I begin by paying tribute to the long and distinguished career of the late Baroness Hart of South Lanark ? |
| 3 | Lord Mayor , may I begin by congratulating so many from the majority group for taking the time to attend today 's Council meeting . |
| 4 | Can I begin by making er er couple of apologies . |
| 5 | We may well ask : where shall I begin in teaching a brand new congregation ? |
| 6 | It 's the thought of you that keeps me going when I begin to flag or feel a bit faint-hearted … |
| 7 | ‘ I begin to twig , Will . |
| 8 | I begin to really hate men and do n't want to get close to them in case I get hurt again . |
| 9 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |
| 10 | " Then I begin for you . |
| 11 | In this case I begin with two on a 16 , and if necessary go down to one caster on an 18 . |
| 12 | When pressed , she explains , ‘ I do very little preliminary work — usually one very rough sketch before I begin with the picture . |
| 13 | I begin with this area because , firstly , it is towards the top of the paper and it is always preferable to work from top to bottom to alleviate unwanted smudging . |
| 14 | When pressed , she explains , ‘ I do very little preliminary work — usually one very rough sketch before I begin with the picture . |
| 15 | I begin with this area because , firstly , it is towards the top of the paper and it is always preferable to work from top to bottom to alleviate unwanted smudging . |
| 16 | I begin with a rather trivial example . |
| 17 | I begin with the statutes and the Code . |
| 18 | But the reason I begin with it is because it is in many ways a blueprint . |
| 19 | For a start , I begin with the premise that action makes a difference . |
| 20 | I begin with an apology to my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , the Home Secretary and other hon. Members who spoke before I entered the Chamber . |
| 21 | I shall try to show that our political practices accept integrity as a distinct virtue , and I begin with what I hope will strike you as a puzzle . |
| 22 | I begin at the foot of the column and toil my way up the page to find each story unedifyingly summarized in inch-high type . |
| 23 | In the following sections , I begin by discussing Buid attitudes toward aggression and its opposite , tranquillity , in the daily life of the community . |
| 24 | ‘ I begin by posing my sitter in carious positions in different places in the studio . |
| 25 | I begin by examining the antiracists ' notion of racism as a form of irrationalism . |
| 26 | I begin by trying to lift it in , which is hopeless but , in the process , the bin falls over . |
| 27 | I begin by showing how different phases of that temporal process are associated with different spaces in and around the longhouse and end by showing that the very same " space-time " principles underlie the structure of the cosmos The anthropologist must regard the ancestral cosmos as an imaginary projection of present experience , but at the same time it is a projection which both controls present experience and forms an integral part of it . |
| 28 | I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Stockton , North ( Mr. Cook ) on becoming a grandfather again . |
| 29 | I begin by identifying those objectives which — I hope he agrees — the hon. Gentleman and his party share . |
| 30 | I want this morning to consider the effect of some of those issues on our planet and particularly on our atmosphere , and I begin by considering the ozone layer . |