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He'd always found the game too slow, and had a bad memory.

Find someone who has a bad memory for names.

But I have a bad memory at times.

Coleman also had a bad memory for names, and called everybody "Bub".

"Having a bad memory doesn't mean she did it."

"Well, I'm not putting off the ceremony again just because you have a bad memory, Meredith.

"I haven't got records, and I have a bad memory," he told an interviewer in 1973.

But Lynn Anne had not had a bad memory of the event.

The secretary hadn't been openly difficult, she'd merely claimed to have a bad memory, at least when it came to mortals.

She also said she had a bad memory and had suffered for years from mental illness.

Zimmerman said in response that he had a bad memory and takes medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Maybe he had a bad memory.

In the second series Michelle avoids Tony, who is recovering from the accident and has a bad memory.

The option of having lyrics appear on the screen is, according to Girdler, "cool if you like to sing along, but have a bad memory".

And, "You have to have a bad memory, there are so many setbacks, they'll eat you up."

You have a bad memory.

Have a bad memory, I'll come.

"You're allowed in America to have a bad memory," Mr. Sachs said.

Thankfully, Spongehead has a bad memory, so he left a trail of notes in bottles leading to the chest.

(He claims that he has a bad memory.)

"George has a bad memory," Mr. Riordan said.

She has a bad memory and is longing for a Singing Stone from Scavenger Fields.

Cerryl wondered what favor was so bad that the genial Dylert had a bad memory about it.

Referring to all the times the same player beat him earlier in the day, Jackson said, "To be a good corner, you have to have a bad memory."

She had a bad memory for names, and it irritated her not to be able to think of them, so that she would pause in the middle of some story to rack her brains.

Children with dyslexia often have a poor memory of spoken and written words.

The trouble was that Kelley had a poor memory for everything except mechanical details.

Probably the old man had a poor memory, and if there was a letter it was for somebody else.

Christie pleaded insanity and claimed to have a poor memory of the events.

But critics say that test merely rewards criminals who have a poor memory for detail.

If you have a poor memory you could slip away for a moment and write yourself a quick note.

Perhaps she had a poor memory and kept forgetting where she had left them.

Jones soon discovered that he had a poor memory for dates and history, and thus changed his major to chemistry.

His mother thinks he's nine years old, but she has a poor memory that the drink has rotted; he might be eight, or ten.

Only one had been on the job for longer than six months; and he had a poor memory for names and faces.

A Sepp, a race of bovine-like people, she tends to one-up the main character, despite having a poor memory.

I only glanced at about one-third of the articles; and, having a poor memory, I have enumerated scarcely any of even the principal objects.

The clerk would have a poor memory if anyone should inquire later about the phone call or the personal appearance of Mr. Wartig.

They live perfecdy good lives thinking they have a poor memory for faces - although prosopagnosia has nothing to do with memory.

Mrs. F.: "I have a poor memory."

The admiral has a poor memory, believing the current U.S. President is still Herbert Hoover.

A scholar of mountaineering literature, he once wrote a paper that examined why climbers have a poor memory for pain and usually ignore turn-back times at great peril.

Senator - Bernadette Castro accused her opponent, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, of having a poor memory or intentionally misleading voters.

He jumbled different accounts together, which was taken advantage of by some of the noblemen who had retained those habits since the time of Monsieur Mazarin - who had a poor memory, but was a good calculator.

Because the boxes are wood, the analyst cannot tell which box to put the ball in (as he could in experiment 1 above); he also has a poor memory and cannot remember which box contains which colour balls.

The Keltaway family was heroically fecund, and Cal had a poor memory for names, so it wasn't surprising that many of the hundred and thirty guests who packed the reception hall this balmy Saturday evening were unknown to him.

Therefore, until within the last four years or so-- I have a poor memory for dates, and if I mistake, you will correct me in your own mind--you pursued your studies at a distance, and picked up a great variety of accomplishments.

She might have had a poor memory for faces and two left feet when it came to dancing and a habit of picking derelicts for boyfriends, but one thing she prided herself on was her talent for remembering aromas and tastes.

Instead he recycles lots of familiar observations: that George W. Bush got off to a wobbly start as president but found his voice in the wake of Sept. 11; that the commander in chief has a poor memory for facts and figures; that his White House prizes loyalty, discipline and punctuality.

Even the sound of someone in the street below whistling one of his old compositions, of which he had heartily sickened twelve months before, was pleasant to his ears, and this in spite of the fact that the unseen whistler only touched the key in odd spots and had a poor memory for tunes.