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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"The lawyers distorted what I wanted to say," recollects Hansen grimly.
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I can still recollect every detail of that meeting.
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I do not recollect ever having been to Ohio, although my mother says we went there when I was a child.
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I recognize his face but I can't seem to recollect much about him.
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Only later did she recollect where she'd seem him before.
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The events were so dreadful that even now it is painful to recollect them.
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We have nine children, and I don't recollect that I ever felt the need to hit any of them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Does my right hon. Friend by any chance recollect the average inflation rate under the last Labour Government?
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In the memoirs he recollected his response as follows: Three solutions are conceivable.
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Many people find it virtually impossible to recollect the country we were elected to change - and did change.
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Mr Clinton said in a statement yesterday that he could not recollect a conversation with Mr Rodham about the pardons.
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She regained herself quickly, her scattered forces recollecting in her eyes.
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These help them to recollect their homeland and the families they have left behind.
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This his ear, his neck, his elbow seemed to recollect .