Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 2 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 3 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 4 | However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art . |
| 5 | I realised at the beginning of 1992 that we were not core and that we were to be disposed of — we had a very difficult year . ’ |
| 6 | In nineteen ninety S C F began its work providing facilities for prisoner 's families in Crumlin road in Belfast , Norwich prison , Strangeways and here in London 's Holloway prison for women which I visited at the beginning of June . |
| 7 | This case is the first of the modern Court of Appeal authorities to which I referred at the beginning of this judgment . |
| 8 | As I mentioned at the beginning , many of the methodological problems are faced by other social scientists , and , of course , sociologists of religion will also employ other sociological methods and techniques that I have not specifically mentioned ( it was , for example , important to use a pilot questionnaire to test my questions for ambiguities and so on ) . |
| 9 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 10 | Structures of support between mothers and daughters are subject to all the individual variations which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion , and at a more collective level , ethnic and cultural variation is very important , with some cultural traditions placing a less strong emphasis on this bond than does white Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 11 | I 'm here to represent you basically as , as your voice with any problem you have , as I mentioned at the beginning . |
| 12 | I mentioned at the beginning the idea of a classless society , now I do n't know what you think of the er the idea of a classless society , it 's something that the th th Prime Minister erm er er talked about when he , when he took office and I asked whether you think it 's possible to have , we if you think a classless society is possible at all , whether you think it 's desirable . |
| 13 | From this lengthy account the balanced reciprocity which I mentioned at the beginning becomes very clear but some of you may think that the detail is excessive . |
| 14 | Erm now , the other thing I mentioned at the beginning was certification of the system . |
| 15 | Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies . |
| 16 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 17 | However , I shall return to the four themes which I identified at the beginning , and which have been threaded through the discussion . |
| 18 | In this respect , however , the distinctions that are made resemble many others in political science which , as I noted at the beginning of this chapter , frequently emerge out of the dominant political concerns of the age . |
| 19 | As I stated at the beginning of this book , the common thread that runs through the different chapters is the problem of continuity/discontinuity . |
| 20 | Beckett 's Molloy expresses it , for example , when he remarks , ‘ I began at the beginning , like an old ballocks , can you imagine that ? ’ |
| 21 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 22 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 23 | I heard at the beginning of this week — my wife 's coming back . ’ |
| 24 | There was no advance planning to reach this figure and I decided at the beginning that I would not cut corners in an effort to keep within the budget . |
| 25 | Yeah well I meant at the beginning of them alright ? |
| 26 | I thought at the beginning that you were working with him , that it was your revenge for Eddie 's death . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , I did at the beginning . |
| 28 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 29 | I said at the beginning , when I talked about the woman at the pool , that ‘ the essence of her charm , independent of time revealed itself for a second in that gesture and dazzled me . ’ |
| 30 | I said at the beginning of the book that 50 per cent was documented historical fact . |