Example sentences of "[coord] i can remember [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 2 | And I can remember we went and gathered violets . |
| 3 | And then they carried the remains across the fields to the Lady Kirkyard and that was past the school and I can remember us watching this procession going across the fields . |
| 4 | I mean even , even myself as a young girl , I 'm not , I 'm not th you know , that , that erm , that young yet , but I can remember him the er , you know , streak of er , lightning across the old black and white screen . |
| 5 | I can remember now you say hypnotist but I ca n't remember what happened in the programme but I can remember him . |
| 6 | I do n't know her name but I can remember him saying it . |
| 7 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |