To your doctor or lawyer: Ask them if you are speaking in the course of a professional relationship (doctor-patient or attorney-client).
Basically, individual liberty, self-evident truths (all men are created pretty much equal for the most part, objectively speaking), in the course of human events, that inalienable rights thing that seems to be hot right now: Life (hey, no biggie), Liberty (just a thought), and the Pursuit of Happiness (good luck with that, right!), yadda yadda, blah blah blah.
He said that he had spoken in the course of a wide-ranging interview crossing many topics.
As she spoke, in the course of several hours, a single lock of blond hair kept falling in front of her face.
So too with the interrogative mood: I overhear your words, 'who is on the phone.' Thus far I don't know whether you've asked a question, since you may have so spoken in the course of stating, "John wonders who is on the phone".
In the winter session of 1826, the vice president decided in effect, that, as president of the senate, he had no power of preserving order, or of calling any member to order, for words spoken in the course of debate, upon his own authority, but only so far, as it was given, and regulated by the rules of the senate.
For most of the people I spoke to in the course of making the programme, this is pushing it a bit.
All of the other funeral directors I spoke with, in the course of my reporting, were genial people who took pride in their function.
(Patients I spoke to in the course of my research said they'd felt better the next day, so it seems unlikely the 12-month follow-up Zivadinov and Siddiqui intend to perform will show improvements).
The caterpillar, far from being punished for his indulgence, suffers no more than a mild stomach ache before being transformed into a butterfly". Conservative capitalists "are thus assured of nothing more than mildly discomforting taxation before they attain the bliss of their first billion". For most of the people I spoke to in the course of making the programme, this is pushing it a bit.
I understand why he noted down the names of everyone he met and spoke to in the course of a day, why he registered all the quarrels and all the reconciliations, but I don't understand why he documented how much he drank.
