Example sentences of "i can remember " in BNC.

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1 I can remember everything .
2 Not that I can remember .
3 I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe .
4 Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ .
5 I can remember doing my Mick again from The Caretaker and for Shakespeare I did an outrageous choice of Cardinal Wolsey from Henry VIII , which I do n't think I shall ever be suited to playing .
6 I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon .
7 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 .
8 My concern over this for almost as long as I can remember .
9 One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything .
10 I can remember sitting at Professor Hayek 's feet in the company of Margaret Thatcher , a fellow disciple .
11 Well , like , I can remember when the word went round that someone was coming to do research on the RUC .
12 Like , this estate here , the people here have always been hostile towards the police as long as I can remember .
13 The first one , the first time in fact that I can remember going to the pictures , was being taken to the cinema in Lewisham by my mother to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just before the outbreak of the Second World War .
14 The first , and only , film that I can remember seeing there was Sergeant York , the dialogue of which was very loudly interpreted by the more bilingual of the French-Canadians for their monoglot mates , much to the annoyance of the anglophones .
15 And , as far as I can remember , he did it .
16 In the years we have been going to the Arctic ( at least one summer and one winter trip now for as long as I can remember ) , we have acquired odd niggles .
17 UK new cars sales plunged by nearly 26 per cent in February in what was described by a spokesman for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders as ‘ the biggest month-on-month February drop I can remember . ’
18 ‘ I 've been in love with new clothes ever since I can remember .
19 I can remember writing an extravagant critique of ‘ Cinderella Rockefeller' ’ .
20 I can remember him coming home and moaning about his ‘ blooming job ’ and travelling up and down on the train . ’
21 I can remember sitting there one whole afternoon with him while he had flu or something , and these people beating down the door .
22 I can remember the session very well .
23 There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service .
24 A whole new generation of music sprouted up , the best I can remember .
25 I can remember our mother complaining about it . ’
26 There is something slithering along these shadowed walls and I can remember against my will the shock and the smell of seeing the steaming intestines pulled from a slaughtered pig , a poor animal with skin like a human being .
27 I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down !
28 Back at the scene of the burglary , I can remember thinking next , ‘ Oh well , I suppose I can re-wrap some of the parcels that have just been torn open ; I suppose I could use cash instead for some of the presents that have gone ; there is some way that I can cope with this . ’
29 I can remember the very first time it happened — I was out walking the dog with my mum and a car tooted at us , and my mum said , ‘ Oh , someone thinks your bottom 's nice ’ .
30 I can remember a party dress that I loved — a white one with bright , tiny flowers on and lace trimming .
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