Example sentences of "remembered [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One resident , Jim Goodson , aged 105 , who enlisted in the Army in 1902 at the age of 17 , remembered being one of the first to be issued with a khaki uniform , an improvement on the red tunics which the Boers picked off so easily . |
| 2 | His spirits sank , but after trying another non-German ship without success , he remembered being briefed that Rostock was worth trying . |
| 3 | John Lucas , the future philosopher , remembered being taught Greek grammar by Ramsey and sitting on his head while reciting Greek verbs . |
| 4 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 5 | Although she was the dominant parent , she had made no attempt to do so until then ; Robin 's father remembered being circumcised after his father 's death , when he was seven . |
| 6 | I remembered being in the weight-training room with two club-mates , Trevor Wade and Clifford Mamba , a few weeks earlier and we had been discussing sprinting . |
| 7 | She remembered being told that Nahum was dead . |
| 8 | Under hypnosis Sylvia remembered being adamant in her refusal to join in a game of hide and seek , which would have involved her in hiding in isolated , cramped and possibly dark surroundings so that she would not be found . |
| 9 | His younger daughter remembered being taken to visit him there by her mother . |
| 10 | Lily remembered being cold , being hungry ; how before she went to bed her mother had scorched the skirting board with the flame of a kerosene lamp to make the bugs jump out of the walls . |
| 11 | He remembered being sick when he was on leave on Knossos . |
| 12 | Suddenly she remembered being told that he had lost an only daughter , killed by a hit-and-run driver , and she wished the words unsaid . |
| 13 | Robyn remembered being by the fountain , all those weeks ago ; he had used the very same expression then . |
| 14 | Iris had a similar block in her kitchen ; once Melissa remembered being asked to hand her one f the knives . |
| 15 | Iain 's father , Fireman John Allan , 36 , said he remembered being told ‘ years ago ’ that there was a quarry in the area . |