Example sentences of "he remembered the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described how they went outside , and saw the flattened port , and hundreds of bodies lying right around them , their exposed skin scalded , and he remembered the obscene and chilling stillness of it all . |
| 2 | He remembered the long black shadows he had seen when crossing over in the basket lift . |
| 3 | Then he remembered the long , toilsome months when he had worked to perfect a style of writing , giving hours to his literature and language assignments , more hours to dissecting other people 's novels . |
| 4 | All too clearly , he remembered the long procession of terribly mutilated corpses , stretched out on cold mortuary slabs over the past five years , in the wake of the man 's bloodlust . |
| 5 | He remembered the proud , fearless Sylvie of the war years , the seductive Sylvie on her many stages , feeding off her music and the eyes directed at her , and giving back amply in return . |
| 6 | He remembered the dark patches in Grigoriev 's beard , and thought that he should have realised their meaning . |
| 7 | He remembered the small young woman alone in the boat by Harker 's Rock . |
| 8 | Of course , he remembered the front gates . |
| 9 | He remembered the ancient legends of the Guardians , the Brotherhood of Sorcerers who would serve and master if they were paid enough , and who would guard anything in the world if someone would employ them sufficiently profitably ; he remembered as well that the Conablaiche and the Lad of the Skins were abroad in the world again . |
| 10 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 11 | His first reaction was to reject Morgan until he remembered the abortive Cardiff robbery . |
| 12 | Then he remembered the hot drink he 'd promised her . |
| 13 | He remembered the hot burning sands outside Alexandria where he , Sir Brian , Sir Ralph , and the others had been a band of carefree knights only too happy to take the gold of the enemy . |
| 14 | He remembered the built-up shoe . |
| 15 | Even as he was shaking his head , Patrick could hear Tom Rooney saying to him , " You 're part of the organization now … we look after our own , " and then he remembered the young gunman 's statement , " We need people like you … if any of you feel like joining … " |
| 16 | Then he remembered the one designer he 'd met — gay — and had second thoughts . |
| 17 | He remembered the tall thin red ones Zoe used to put in the silver candelabra when she was entertaining . |
| 18 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |
| 19 | He remembered the black foam of hair , the grey eyes , the ivory shoulders with torchlight playing on them , and grimaced . |
| 20 | Murder : he remembered the first chilling thrill of the word in the school playground , when it was still something to be excited about and before he knew who the victim was , or the chief suspect . |
| 21 | He remembered the first time he had come there , his first coveted invitation to the home of one of the richest men in West Germany . |
| 22 | As he walked behind the lawnmower he did n't care for , he remembered the first time he 'd ever seen her . |
| 23 | He remembered the vivid sunsets of his boyhood and the way the sun would hang like a crimson ball above the edge of the trees surrounding their house and then plunge out of sight as if it had been dropped in a moment of carelessness . |
| 24 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 25 | He remembered the last time he had seen his father — Dermot Corcoran , he corrected himself — alive . |
| 26 | He remembered the last visit he had had — from Marshal Tolonen — and was determined to keep Kim away from things . |
| 27 | He remembered the last time he had been to see the dentist . |
| 28 | With a pang , he remembered the last time he had eaten fish and chips , the time he had met Irene Pitt . |
| 29 | He remembered the brackish stream where he had fished for pinkeens with — who was it , Tommy Murtagh and Seanin Carty ? — and the mercifully short walk to the National School that in good weather he made in bare feet over stony roads , with in winter a sod of turf for the schoolroom fire crushing the jam sandwich in his satchel . |
| 30 | Then he remembered the eager questioning eyes of the four women he had met that evening — it would hardly be suitable for them . |