Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a memory " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Somewhere beyond Amiens I had a memory of the car-ferry docks at Calais .
2	The light was so confusing , the monster 's movements so fast , that I had a memory only of an abstraction of sculptured bone .
3	I have a memory , half forgotten from that time of youth and magic , that knows of a secret garden .
4	I have a memory of walking up the street in this small farm town in up-state New York and buying The Monkees first record when I was five or six years old .
5	I have a memory of my mother slumped , weak with laughter , against our back door .
6	There are great dangers in the royal family speaking out because I have a memory of the nineteen seventy nine , just prior to the devolution bill in the referendum in Scotland , when the Queen spoke out against devolution , now she in , in effect denied a large number of Scots the opportunity to have some sort of Scottish Parliament based here , and we probably would n't , I think , be debating this subject today , if in fact we 'd got that eleven years ago .
7	‘ I have a memory for faces and names , Signor Daunbey .
8	We have a memory of Ramsey from a girl whose family attended St Benet 's .
9	In Malaysia , they have pollen sources throughout the year , mostly in the understorey ; they have a memory for food sites , can forage up to 1 km from base and can recruit other foragers .
10	He had a memory of struggling through the darkened recesses of Roirbak 's labyrinthine abode late at night , blindly knocking things from his path in an effort to reach the sluice drain before his urge to vomit overcame him .
11	In his heyday he had a memory like a clamp .
12	Some of them had a memory of metal , of bronze heads , and shields and tools : when they came upon the hulk of a wrecked ship on one of the cays of Oualie , they found rusted nails and coopers ' bands and knew that they had remembered right something the islands had never known .

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