[Vocabulary] introductory clause

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Could you give some popular infinitive introductory clauses such as:

To begin with, ...
To anticipate a little, ...
 
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Kotfor said:
To anticipate a little, ...
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Is this one?

To start,
To summarise,
To put it another way,
To conclude,
To make things clear,

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Also 'Speaking as a <noun-phrase>...' e.g. 'Speaking as a concerned parent.....'.

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