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Example sentences for "cannot remember"

  • Indeed, I have had no choice but to act in this manner, for with the exception of the Coral Reefs, I cannot remember a single first-formed hypothesis which had not after a time to be given up or greatly modified.

  • When the work was finished he sent it to me by post, with the request that I would take it to Rubinstein (I cannot remember why he could not attend in person).

  • I cannot remember whether I told you about it before.

  • I cannot remember whether he distinguished himself on this occasion, but I know that nothing particularly dreadful happened, and that he made no evident fiasco.

  • To tell the truth I cannot remember being in a more uninteresting place than this little town with its extremely uncommunicative population which, it seemed to me, lived under a shadow of fear that prevented all gaiety.

  • After this they, too, said something about Love, but what it was I cannot remember, since even as I repeat this dream to you it is beginning to slip away from me fast as a swallow skimming the water.

  • I cannot remember whether he spoke to me about Cook’s death.

  • I cannot remember whether I told the coroner that I had not seen Mr. Palmer when I gave the deceased the coffee.

  • I cannot remember so well to day as I did yesterday.

  • I cannot remember my return to my father's house that day.

  • I cannot remember now a word of all the vague threatenings against the sundering universe with which I replied.

  • I cannot remember exactly; but if I had had money, I could have purchased it cheaper at many places besides that.

  • I cannot remember exactly; and I have no copy of my account.

  • I cannot remember now, it is so long ago.

  • The tenants have been reproved for doing so; but I cannot remember of any farm being advertised for that.

  • But the interval between I cannot remember.

  • Sometimes I cannot remember in the morning what I was doing the evening before.

  • I know not, Elsie--indeed--I cannot remember.

  • A space at the upper end of the ball-room was marked off by rail or ribbon--I cannot remember which.

  • The fleas at first gave us terrible torment, but a copious washing of floors and the use of some native plant, the name of which I cannot remember, diminished this inconvenience, to which also we gradually became accustomed.

  • After or before these, I cannot remember which, came a recitation from a once famous improvisatrice, Rosa Taddei.

  • I cannot remember what it was which, soon after this time, led me to the study of Spinoza.

  • It is a long time (indeed I cannot remember when I last did so) since I visited a theatre!

  • I can moralise over this now that the opportunity of putting the precept into practice has passed away, but I cannot remember that I was ever very sympathetic to my subordinates when I had them.

  • At the time I cannot remember whether we had the word Lyttleton or London on the stern as our port of registry, but I know that shortly afterwards there was some correspondence with the builders on that subject.

  • And, partly by accident and ignorance and partly through the real rabid certainties of youth, I cannot remember that I ever wrote any article that was at all suitable to any paper.

  • I cannot remember my exact words, of course.

  • Somewhere about this time must have occurred the incident mentioned by George Bernard Shaw in a note which appeared in the Mark Twain Quarterly (Spring, 1937): I cannot remember when I first met Chesterton.

  • I acted on the impulses of my heart without the slightest question or hesitation, and during that entire period of my life I cannot remember that I was ever for a single time seriously mistaken or misled.

  • I cannot remember when I did not know what that song was!

  • I never had a home, or at least I cannot remember it.

  • On his return he wrote to Sir Thomas Farrer:-- "I cannot remember a more delightful week than the last.

  • I cannot remember now of ever seeing more dead men and horses and captured cannon, all jumbled together, than that scene of blood and carnage and battle on the Wilkerson turnpike.

  • I was on every march that was ever made by the First Tennessee Regiment during the whole war, and at this time I cannot remember of ever experiencing a harder or more fatiguing march.

  • In all the history of the war, I cannot remember of more privations and hardships than we went through at Missionary Ridge.

  • I cannot remember that he overcame his sensitive reserve in respect of any other passenger, unless in the case of a childless married lady who was accompanied by her pet cat and dog.

  • I cannot remember that we admired anything.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot answer; cannot avoid; cannot bear; cannot but; cannot consent; cannot describe; cannot escape; cannot forbear; cannot give; cannot have; cannot help; cannot know; cannot leave; cannot love; cannot make; cannot see; cannot speak; cannot stand; cannot stop; cannot think; cannot understand; cannot well; cannot write; hard lines; political questions; sailing vessels