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Example sentences for "could remember"

  • Never before, in all our intercourse that I could remember, had she spoken to me about religion.

  • Austen studied the jury, and wondered how many points of his argument he could remember, but when he had got to his feet the words came to him.

  • For mowing was no joke that year, the summer being wonderfully wet (even for our wet country), and the swathe falling heavier over the scythe than ever I could remember it.

  • And here was our own mow-yard, better filled than we could remember, and perhaps every sheaf in it destined to be burned or stolen, before we had finished the bread we had baked.

  • I set him up, both straight and heavy, so that he need but close both eyes, and keep his mouth just open; and in the morning he was thankful for all that he could remember.

  • Sabethany died, and they buried her at the foot of the hill in our graveyard before I could remember.

  • There never had been such a flurry at our house since I could remember; for to-morrow would be Christmas and bring home all the children, and a house full of guests.

  • Ever since I could remember I had watched courting male birds fight all over the farm.

  • They were gentlemen, he could remember that, wearing warm coats with fur collars.

  • But I’ve been thinking all this time, since I could remember, that perhaps it would be better if I were always Pierre.

  • I could remember, too, the temper, little short of scorn, in which she saw me devote myself to Jesuit readings, and labor hard at the dry tasks the Sister Ursule had prescribed for me.

  • Of the incidents of the card-table I could remember next to nothing.

  • He shivered slightly and protested that he could remember no more.

  • I therefore took some trouble to describe them as accurately as I could remember to people who would be interested in deporting them; and succeeded, so I was later informed, in having them headed back from the Degumber borders.

  • I handed him the book and wrote out as much as I could remember of his description of the sea-fight, appealing to him from time to time for confirmation of fact or detail.

  • He spoke of many forest fires, and told all the stories he could remember in the hope of distracting Joseph's thoughts from the length of the journey.

  • He was astonished he could remember so great a sin and not fear God.

  • Since he could remember, the life of that family had centred round him.

  • He could remember everything: the shout of a newsboy in the street--"Murder in Tufnell Park!

  • She asked him question after question, and he had to repeat to her every word he could remember of Brewster's conversation.

  • As far as he could remember, there had been no such exact statement in so many words.

  • He could remember getting to the end of his tether, and finding Gorman sticking to him like grim death; and then he could remember no more.

  • Of course he could remember, and once for all the heroic resolutions he had made and tried to act upon utterly broke down.

  • He sat with the book in front of him, forming the words with his lips in order to fix his attention, but he could remember nothing.

  • Philip had known the passage perfectly the day before, but now he could remember nothing.

  • Mary Ann had been at the vicarage ever since he could remember.

  • He would sit out on the little side verandah, early and late, tooting every regimental call he could remember, until the time came when his perseverance met with reward.

  • While Uncle George steered for a small island near the head of the lake, now just visible, like a speck on the water, we rowed by turns swiftly over its surface, singing such boat songs as we could remember.

  • He translated it to us, sentence by sentence, afterward, wishing to see if we could remember it.

  • I had no fear of the forest till that day when I was lost therein, for the nearer glades round our village had been my playground ever since I could remember, and before I knew that fear therein might be.

  • We asked him how all that went, and he told us what he could remember.

  • Oh, how I wish I could remember all he said!

  • He had been orphaned so young that he could remember no other woman whom he called mother.

  • All his active sensations and feelings from as far back as he could remember seemed to him the maddest of dreams.

  • He could remember him a penniless outcast, slinking about the streets of Sulaco, without a single friend or acquaintance, till Don Carlos Gould took him into the service of the mine.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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