As a defense attorney, I'd heard those words dozens of times-usually prefacing a gut-wrenching confession.

It is for the sake of such readers as are unfamiliar with the earlier phases of my case that I am prefacing the revelation itself with a fairly ample summary of its background.

Yet in prefacing his announcement to his cabinet with the remark that it "might seem strange" for him to have based a decision on a religious belief, he acknowledged the truth that the divine cannot be known or agreed on and thus must remain a matter of individual conscience.

The presence of a Bishop, the vestments that Sam Whitehead wears, Sam's prefacing of his sermon with collect and the fact that his title is "pastor" suggest that the denomination is one of the groups which formed the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Lynne Truss has written that: "This highly unrealistic reassurance prefacing Brighton Rock was the inspiration for the comedy series Inspector Steine...I wanted to write about a celebrity police inspector in the 1950s who innocently (and touchingly) believed precisely what he had been told at the movies"

James Bentley gives an account of how this came about, prefacing it with the comment, "Tischendorf therefore now embarked on the remarkable piece of duplicity which was to occupy him for the next decade, which involved the careful suppression of facts and the systematic denigration of the monks of Mount Sinai."

Let me get down to prefacing this thing before you change your mind.

Each was prefaced by a short poem which did not have a title itself.

It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.

Each new area Jazz visits is prefaced by its name.

Each part is prefaced with a passage from the Bible.

This election was prefaced by weeks of bombings and political violence.

Even telephone calls made within a city must now be prefaced by that city's area code.

This was prefaced by a diplomatic "though I have not endorsed anyone."

His view on the soul is prefaced by a survey of six other theories.

She even prefaces each section with a quotation from the character in question.

It is, however, prefaced by a subject line reading "Resignation."

Prefacing it by sitting up straight and sliding forward in his chair.

Many other children's games, that do not themselves involve singing are prefaced by a song.

Each section is prefaced by notes on the mathematician's life and work.

Each volume in the series was selected and prefaced by one of the writers.

You are now designated as Class 895 and will answer to any announcements prefaced by that number.

We've prefaced that and the, the heading, I should have a copy, what?

Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion.

Stop prefacing your remarks with "I say to you"

And I'm even prefacing each with a little profile.

The book is prefaced with an introduction that outlines these themes.

One student prefaced a question by saying, "To many people my age, you're the only President we have known, or at least care to remember."

She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story.

When had anyone ever called her that before without prefacing it with "young," or something equally diminishing?

The light haze that so often prefaces a very hot Paris day had disappeared.