Sentence examples for cannot recollect from inspiring English sources

I cannot recollect anything of the kind.

The reason is simple: experience cannot recollect innocence.

They can infer that they have been doing something, been somewhere, even though they cannot recollect what or where.

When Watson asked if Sinodinos knew in his capacity as treasurer about the donations, he replied he "cannot recollect" being aware of it at the time.

"I cannot recollect in my 25 years in the advertising business a magazine growing this big, this quickly and having this much consumer demand," he said.

I found a lot of it in Dickens, but the most satisfying book in this category was Passionate Friends by HG Wells (though I cannot recollect if "consumption" ended the heroine's career, or strychnine).

Germany's reinstated capital is rebuilding itself so fast that Berliners themselves cannot always recollect just where the awful thing ran.

I have, while roaming the streets of New York, glimpsed corners that recalled quarters of Naples; I have sniffed odors that recalled sections of Budapest; I have eaten food that recalled cafes of Moscow; I cannot, however, recollect ever having seen, heard, smelled, or tasted in New York anything that recalled Ystradyfodwg in Wales.

By Charles G. Shaw The New Yorker, July 27 , 1929P. 15 I have, while roaming the streets of New York, glimpsed corners that recalled quarters of Naples; I have sniffed odors that recalled sections of Budapest; I have eaten food that recalled cafes of Moscow; I cannot, however, recollect ever having seen, heard, smelled, or tasted in New York anything that recalled Ystradyfodwg in Wales.

His lawyer told Channel 4 News that Starr "cannot be expected to recollect every show that he has appeared on and to remember every person that he has ever met".

She cannot do anything.'" Ghimp recollects.