Example sentences of "realise [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 2 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 3 | With regard to the public interest , the important figure is the sum that is realised for the Scottish Bus Group as a whole . |
| 4 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 6 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 7 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 8 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 9 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 10 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 11 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 12 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 13 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 14 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 15 | But when I substituted ‘ anorexia nervosa ’ for ‘ mental illness ’ I could see the truth in what Szasz was saying , and realise at the same time that his judgement was not so harsh . |
| 16 | And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home . |
| 17 | Once Arthur is in the boat Bedivere realises for the first time that ‘ the true old times are dead ’ . |
| 18 | Aggregate proceeds realised in the first half of 1992 from the sale amounted to C$83.2 million , yielding a profit of C$38 million . |
| 19 | With the release of ‘ The Rehearsal ’ his ultra-modest hopes have been realised in the finest possible style , because with the obvious exception of Jimmy MacCarthy 's debut there has n't been a solo endeavour to touch this one , here in recent times . |
| 20 | These include changes in government policy realised in the same Housing Act . |
| 21 | It is beyond doubt that with peaceful development of human society , such progress will be realised in the near future . ’ |
| 22 | Then pain and the sorrow of Arthur and his knights ' defeat and deaths are realised in the beautiful phrase : ‘ an agony of lamentation ’ . |
| 23 | A sound constitution is another requirement , as can be realised from the following passage from Gilchrist Alexander 's The Temple of the Nineties . |
| 24 | The DPP statement on June 14 said that the jury in the 1976 trial might not have realised from the scientific evidence provided that the seven could have been innocently contaminated with nitroglycerine , but that " in the light of current scientific knowledge this was a real possibility , however remote " . |
| 25 | The answer may seem obvious now , but it was not realised until the 1920s that creatures sense variations in the length of the day . |
| 26 | This hope was to be realised within the next three decades . |
| 27 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 28 | It is a project of ambitious scale and could not have been realised without the generous sponsorship of the Menil Foundation , owner of an important group of works by Magritte . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The creed still makes sense but , as both Mr Gandhi and Mr Singh began dimly to realise in the 1980s , the doctrine does not . |