Example sentences of "but [pers pn] could [adv] remember " in BNC.
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| 1 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 2 | ‘ I can remember phone numbers , decks of cards , all the Olympic medal-winners going back a century but I could n't remember the right day on which to turn up — at least I was n't a week late . ’ |
| 3 | I was sure I lived there , but I could n't remember if there was a bedroom attached . |
| 4 | Well , I , he did tell me but I could n't remember , sh |
| 5 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 6 | She volleyed something , but I could n't remember what she had . |
| 7 | But Fred was saying , er because , erm the dreadful thing was I could n't remember his name to start with I think I could try if I knew but I could n't remember what his christian name |
| 8 | I 'd done five but I could only remember one . |
| 9 | Mm , I can never remember the formulas , like your dad said formula for such and such a thing is so and so and that , but I could never remember them so I was no good then , because I could n't remember it |
| 10 | And your mum used to say cor I wish I could write that down but you , but I could never remember . |
| 11 | But I could still remember what I had been through as Richie Quick . |
| 12 | But she could n't remember anyone approaching her , or giving her the document . |
| 13 | She was sure he had told her the story of the Moon and the Crocodile when she was a child , but she could n't remember it . |
| 14 | And the stream … it had had a name once , but she could n't remember it . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , we did , but she could n't remember much . ’ |
| 16 | Cos I , I could tell she could place me from somewhere but she could n't remember where , well th I do n't think , she gave the impression that she knew who I was . |
| 17 | But she could not remember where she had heard them before . |
| 18 | Her room was not far from Tom 's and on the same side of the house , but she could not remember hearing birds before . |
| 19 | But she could not remember anything at all about them . |
| 20 | He wanted to say her name but he could not remember it ; he wanted to engage in the physical endearments and gentleness he so much prided himself on bestowing and was received so gratefully for so doing , but this lean , hard-bodied girl would have none of it . |
| 21 | But he could not remember anything about it . |
| 22 | A boy came home after his first rugby game with a broken nose , a torn ear and three loose teeth , but he could n't remember who they belonged to . |
| 23 | There had been a similar holder and brass chain in the parish room of his father 's Norfolk church but he could n't remember seeing one since . |
| 24 | He told us there had been a revolution in Eastern Europe and that the Soviet Union was finished , but he could n't remember any more details . |
| 25 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 26 | They talked , but he could n't remember what about . |
| 27 | Trippy was meeting somebody at a club down at Camden Lock but he could n't remember who or exactly where . |
| 28 | He had been too young to read the note but he could still remember how that table had looked when he came in , its top at the time the height of his own shoulder . |
| 29 | There was a psalm he wanted to say before he went , but he could only remember the beginning of it , so he repeated the words over and over again : " Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee , O Lord : Lord hear my voice … " |
| 30 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |