I am sure she must have been dead almost from the beginning of my vainglorious little speech.

But will you tell me whether I defined love at the beginning of my speech?

It sounded so completely unconvincing when he finally put the beginning of his carefully prepared speech into actual sound.

Mat had been trying to edge a word in from the beginning of the man's speech.

What I have to say at the beginning of my speech I wish to address to them.

All this should be understood under the premise that I mentioned at the beginning of my speech.

The solution to our problems, as I said at the beginning of my speech, is to have more Europe, not less.

At the beginning of my speech, therefore, I should like to introduce a somewhat more conciliatory tone.

Nevertheless, as I said at the beginning of my speech, there are also reasons for a "no' vote.

Mr President, as I said at the beginning of my speech, it is a good text with which to begin our work.