Example sentences of "[adv] realise [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Vass said his client had lashed out , in a fight outside a pub , not realising at the time that a bottle in his hand was broken . |
| 3 | The answer may seem obvious now , but it was not realised until the 1920s that creatures sense variations in the length of the day . |
| 4 | I sincerely wish you many happy returns of the season which I can scarcely realise as the winter of England , so odd does it seem to have the thermometer at 99 on Xmas day . |
| 5 | What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise . |
| 6 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 7 | I did not realise at the time that this species ( or form ) is strongly dimorphic in size , with the female attaining a mere 4″ or so S.L. when fully grown . |
| 8 | ‘ What I did not realise at the outset was that this overlap of business and politics was not something episodic or occasional , but something which permeated the whole system from bottom to top , the very top . |
| 9 | Now , of course , we got problems now where they 've all been abolished and is virtually on a voluntary basis , and I say , it 'll be rather interesting to see whether Lamont actually is going to release some more money , cos you probably realise at the moment they 're cutting back on that particular budget . |
| 10 | The creed still makes sense but , as both Mr Gandhi and Mr Singh began dimly to realise in the 1980s , the doctrine does not . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't realised at the time how tough it was , ’ he admits . |
| 12 | What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't realise at the time what had happened . |
| 14 | Like most of my fellow white South Africans in the early days of contention , I did n't realise at the time that people like Peter Hian and Hassan Howa were looking further than we were , and seeing further ahead than our own claustrophobic horizons . |
| 15 | I did n't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life . |
| 16 | They certainly did n't realise for the length of that trip that they were travelling with another stallion , and the horses arrived at their new home safely . |
| 17 | Just how wicked she did n't realise until the next weekend , when she was on nights covering the regular night sister who was on holiday . |
| 18 | This resource was fully realised by the Home Office who recommended that deaf men should be recruited as Air Raid Wardens ( A.R.P 's ) and firewatchers , and many deaf men did in fact serve in these capacities , and also as stretcher-bearers in air-raid conditions . |
| 19 | Here , this suggestion is extended to cover what I have called invisible metaphors : that is , those metaphoric forms in which one domain is not linguistically realised on the surface of the text , and therefore has to be inferred . |
| 20 | Almost everything in Peter Grimes is superbly realised by the music , except the character of Peter himself . |
| 21 | These parts are superbly realised by the cast ; Clive Francis , James Grout , Sarah Badel , Richard Huw and Lucy Scott all giving the sort of lived-in and clearly progressing performances that you rarely find in the same play . |