Example sentences of "[adj] memory is [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 My first clear memory is of sitting on the front of his horse as he galloped down a ploughed field , of the earth skittering and turning , and being safe in his arms .
2 My earliest memory is of standing in the nursery of Byron House in Highgate and crying my head off .
3 Back to the National , for this week there can be no getting away from it , his first memory is of watching Red Rum 's first triumph .
4 The kitchen had built-in cupboards and shelves — my first memory is of sitting with my little sister in the most commodious shoe cupboard .
5 My first memory is of sitting on a gravestone in that churchyard one cold , grey , December afternoon , looking out at the dark , flat , wild marshes divided by the black line of the River Thames , and listening to the rushing sound of the sea in the distance .
6 My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head .
7 My best memory is of counting the money .
8 Our main memory is of trying to keep the inside of the windscreen free of ice ( no heater ) while queues of traffic built up beside us on the long haul up Shap Fell .
9 I did n't really know him — my main memory is of going with him and Joan and Kathleen ( she was enormously proud of him and I was quite ready to do a spot of hero-worshipping ) for a walk in Cardington meadows .
10 My last memory is of trying to mime Rare Gynaecological Disorders , preparatory to attempting Toxic Shock Syndrome .
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