Example sentences of "[conj] i can remember [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That I can remember your father saying . |
| 2 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 3 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 4 | And I can remember we went and gathered violets . |
| 5 | And then they carried the remains across the fields to the Lady Kirkyard and that was past the school and I can remember us watching this procession going across the fields . |
| 6 | I wonder if , it Mr , was it choir or his father or something that had it , I can if I can remember somebody saying . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember seeing pictures of a fish like that at school , but I 'm damned if I can remember what it was , ’ said Yanto , thoughtfully . |
| 8 | No question about it , she had a face , but I 'm buggered if I can remember what it looked like . |
| 9 | Erm see if I can remember what on earth I did with the damn thing . |
| 10 | I ca n't be loony if I can remember my dream , surely ? |
| 11 | Cos I can remember him saying before he used to drive round to spy |
| 12 | I mean even , even myself as a young girl , I 'm not , I 'm not th you know , that , that erm , that young yet , but I can remember him the er , you know , streak of er , lightning across the old black and white screen . |
| 13 | I can remember now you say hypnotist but I ca n't remember what happened in the programme but I can remember him . |
| 14 | I do n't know her name but I can remember him saying it . |
| 15 | Do n't know but I can remember what happens with the alkali and the acid , you get calcium chloride , er it 's the same . |
| 16 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 17 | ‘ But I can remember lots of other things . |
| 18 | But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |
| 19 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 20 | Ever since I can remember I have been going on demonstrations . |
| 21 | As long as I can remember we 've been up here |
| 22 | Erm and I I as far as I can remember I think such things as underwear were unknown . |
| 23 | I think as far back as I can remember I was organising a group and telling people what to do . " |
| 24 | For as long as I can remember I have done and been interested in music . |
| 25 | Oh dear , the thing is , as , as far as I can remember I ca n't find it in any of the two books that I 've got out at the moment , it 's not under , but I vaguely remember that you have to dig down a certain . |
| 26 | I was n't too bad with them as far as I can remember I was fairly okay . |
| 27 | As far as I can remember it has always been a hot one , in that season beloved of medieval lyricists . |
| 28 | For as long as I can remember it has always been a tidy , clean , friendly place . |
| 29 | For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’ |
| 30 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |