Example sentences of "[noun] i can remember " in BNC.

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1 From my country upbringing I can remember fields of blaggets less common now but I do know of it still being grown in Orkney .
2 ‘ It was the biggest response I can remember , ’ said Alan Wright .
3 ‘ It was one of the quietest schooldays I can remember , ’ says Alwyn Miller , of Granville Terrace , Binchester , Bishop Auckland , who was also a pupil at Bishop Auckland .
4 Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing .
5 ‘ It 's one of the fastest times I can remember for so early in the season , ’ said Christie .
6 Those were the first words I can remember .
7 I mean , I 've been analyzing every dream I can remember now for the last twenty one years and er I think I 've got rather good at dream interpretation I must admit .
8 But er I 'd two that I used to have on the wall at home I can remember .
9 And we had erm we , there was a few changes during that time , we used to get troops coming in and occupying the classroom , and we maybe , at the very early days I can remember having to go to the Street School and also the Street Hall which belong that was a church hall .
10 Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing .
11 Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch .
12 And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times .
13 ‘ The longest day I can remember at Needham smithy was the day of the Stowmarket Christmas sale — I forget the exact year .
14 Mr May broke down in tears as he added : ‘ This is the saddest day I can remember in football . ’
15 And at the court I can remember this as a kid , at the court , of course I was n't in at at the court but I remember the story the blacklegs er picked out people and said they and they and they threw stones you see , through the window .
16 For example I can remember erm hearing that erm Spanish some Spanish oran orange growers who grow their oranges under tunnels , er were getting very depressed because of the erm chemicals they were spraying on them had a harmful effect on their nervous systems .
17 I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ .
18 I do n't remember all I The last man I can remember working one was Mr , Joe , and he was down he The last one I can remember , as I say , was being operated in in the yard just down Street .
19 But , a another one they used to call a fatty I can remember that even now .
20 I do not believe , first , that there was any less crime under a Labour Government — in fact crime increased under every Labour Government I can remember — or , secondly , that encouraging people to better themselves , to make decisions for their lives and to improve their economic position has anything whatever to do with dishonest methods of doing just that .
21 I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home .
22 One of the most touching moments in the whole training period demonstrates this point , and it is just one of many special instances I can remember .
23 One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything .
24 But the best thing I can remember , Ruth thought , is the swing boats .
25 I mean , I remember mother saying that , you see mother had never seen the sea till she joined the Guild and they decided to save for an outing , and then the next thing I can remember was that we used to have these stamps every week and I think it come to two and ninepence erm and for that we went to Rhyl .
26 The airfield 's codename was " Vino " and was near Epernay , the only thing I can remember of that occasion was that we got lost and had to ask for a radio steer from the ground station , We were anxious to get back there because the next evening Gracie Fields was performing for the troops in a local theatre , Of the visit to Prague ( which we never found ) .
27 It 's the funniest thing I can remember about Scarborough .
28 The on the only thing I can remember is running after the car .
29 And all I could remember and all the the only thing I can remember about that was running after the car with .
30 That year I can remember was a good year was n't it ?
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